The Gulf Stream is, no doubt, an enormous spring tainted with sulphur, like many of the springs in Florida and up the coast as far as Charleston, whose waters are warmed from the same influence as the Gulf Stream, from passing up through a deep strata heated by volcanic influences so common in Central America. Its sulphurous taint will account for the absence of whales and jelly fish in its waters, in which waters of similar nature fish are never found. This sulphurous condition may account for the stormy features that prevail along its course. It may be claimed that the waters would smell of sulphur so as to be detected, but such is not necessarily the case; from springs in Florida that flow strong sulphurous water, many visitors will not drink at the spring, but after aërating an hour, it will be drank at hotel tables and from water urns without a suspicion of its being sulphurous. The contact with salt water at the great depth from which the Stream originates diminishes any odor before reaching the surface and quite likely imparts the noticeable change in color. The deep-sea soundings off the coast of Bahama is another reason that the Stream originates there. It is claimed to be almost impossible at the commencement of the stream to get reliable soundings, as evidently sounding leads would be sensibly affected by the powerful current of water flowing outward. The next evidence offered is, where does the enormous amount of water come from to supply our lake systems? Nearly all of the large lakes of the world are located in the highest parts. Lake Geneva 1,226 feet above the sea level, receives the muddy waters of the Rhone, but has so much other inflow as a spring as to discharge its waters blue and clear. Lake Constance is 1,290 feet above the sea and 912 feet deep; the Rhine rising at an elevation of 7,600 feet enters this lake. In 1770, the waters rose in one hour twenty feet above ordinary limit. It is said to contain twenty-five species of fish, including salmon. Onega and Ladoga are high from sea levels, and by canal, connect with some of the headwaters of the Volga. Titicaca, 12,800 feet above the sea, 720 feet deep near the shore, and probably very deep in the middle, contains many islands and abounds in remains of Peruvian architecture. Superior, 627 feet above the sea and mean depth about 1,000 feet, never freezing over except about the shores, and presents a temperature of about 45 degrees. These are only a few in different countries to which the position is universal, for both great bodies of fresh water as well as small ones, as the general impression with people is that lakes are usually in low lands, while the opposite is the true state.