This review critically reviews the article ‘Oak Island’s Mysterious “Money pit”’ condensed from The Rotarian by David MacDonald. The article was written in 1965 and was published in Readers Digest. The review will first summarize the article. Secondly, the review will critique the article, evaluating its accuracy and coverage. Our review will be focused from page 136 to 140. Overall the article was well written with full of descriptions.

The purpose of the article is to explain the hard work done by several people to discover the secrets behind the mysterious money pit in Oak Island. The struggles they have gone through while they explored the money pit, including the amount of money they have spent to solve the mystery. The article enlighten clearly how the pit was built up including a picture which shows different layers of the pit. According to the article pit was built using oak logs, oak chest, flat stones and …show more content…
Which described about the Oak Island’s money pit. It also includes the effort of different people who has tried to solve the mystery behind the money pit. The Author clearly highlighted the work done by different people. In the first part of the article he explained the oak island and where the money pit was located. Then he discussed the results of different diggers together with their failure. He elucidated that each time the diggers dig up to a certain level there happens to be flood in the pit which killed their hope of solving the mystery. Although the author didn’t put any effort on finding the truth himself about how the pit was built, he included some studies of the diggers. He also tried to give a clear picture of the pit by comprising a picture of different layers of the pit. The information in the article was accurately developed, though there is lack of evidences and researches which support the