Mohave County miner., 1894-09-01
Neither Sea nor Land.

1t is supposed that this enormous mass
OF gulf weed may have been partly grown
at the bottom of the shsIlower parts OF
the sea and partly torn from the shores
OF Florids and the Bahama islands by
the force Of the gulf stream. II is then
swept round by the same agency into the
Sargasso sea, where it lives and prop
agates, floating freely in midocean. And
the store is ever incre ,sing, both by ad-
dition and propagation, so that the
meadow grows more and more compact,
and NJ doubt at the inner parts extends
to a considerable depth below the sur
face.
Nor is this all, for at least two-thirds
Of all the infinite fotsam and jstsam
which the gulf stream carries along with
it in its course sooner or later fnds q
resting place in the S,rgssso sea. Here
may be seen huge trunks OF trees torn
from the forests Of Brazil by the waters
of the Amazon and q ,s,ed down far out
to sea until they were caught and swept
along oy the cirrent. log vooi fr,m Hon
durts, orange trees iron Fl,rids, CANOES
and b)Ats from the island, STAYED in,
broken and bottom Upward, wrecks and
remains OF all sorts gathered from the
rich harvest OF the Atlantic, whole keels
or skeletons Of ruinsd ships 50 covered
with bsrnaclss, shells and weed that the
original outline is entirely lost to view,
and here and there derelic. ship trans
formed from a f,ating terror Of the deep
into q mystery put out OF reach OF man
in museum Of unexplained enigm,s.
II is only natural that ships should
carefully avoid this marine rubbish heap,
where the Atlantic shoots its refuse. II
seems doubtful whether sailing vessel
would be able to cut her WY into the
thick network oil weed even with stron
wind behind her Besides, IL the effort
we're re wardsd with a fret deluslve sue.
cess, there would be the almost certain
dinger that in the calm regions OF the
SsrgA Asso sea the wind would suddenly
fail her altogether, leaving her locked
h,pelessly amid the weed and the drift
and wreck ,ge. without hope OF succor or
ape. With regard to a ste imsr, no
prudent skipper is ever likely to make
the astenp:. for it would certainly not be
long before the tsngIing weed would al.
~. ,h
il useless.
The most energetic explorer Of land Of
sea will fl him ,slf ,ffi 4 s.th e.,rd
10 the S,rgisso sea by the fact that 10 is
neithsr one nor the other. I; Is neither
solid enough TO walk upon nor liquid
enoaSh 10 AFT ,ri passage to b,n. Al
the same tins any one who fell into IL
would cert ,inly bs drowned wiihou.
beng able TO swim for his life o. course
il is quite conceivable that very de
termnei psrsy OF pioneers might cut
passage for small bon even 10 the
center. The work wouli taxa an i'm
mense time, however, s1d the ch ,nnsl
would certainly close up behind them as
they PROCEEDED. They would have to
take with them provisions for the whole
voyage, and journey over a space
eqnaling the continent Of Europe would
probably require larger supplies than
couid be conveniently slowed away in
small boat.
Besides, there is no reason to suppose
that the expedition would be worth the
making, or that tina innsr re,sssss OF ths
Sugtsso sea would exhibit any marked
differences from ths outer m ,r4in. Ths
accumulation OF weed would os thicker
and more ent4ngled. and the drift and
wreckage would lie more closely pressed
together, but that would be all There
is no possibility OF the existence OF any
but m ,rine life in this strange morsss,
unless the sea birds have bnilt their nes,s
in the nas,s or hull OF some derelict
vessel Journal.
The Democrats Of South Carolina at
their recent state convention adopted