The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-09-28
Sea Coast Ecbo.-
A PREDICTION THAT WILL BE VERIFIED.

The Atlantic will one day be crossed
by railroad trains and the trip will be
made in forty eight hours between the
two continents.
The writer once made this prediction
to his class while a teacher in Bay st.
Louis, and the same evoked much COM
ment on the part of some parents who
heard the report, and many denials were
made, but the geological fact still re-
mains that the great forces of nature
are working that way, and in the future
we cannot tell how far off it may be
the great Atlantic will have ridge of
land out of the water sufficiently COM
pact and stable enough to bear up sew
eral railroad systems aud, like a great
cable, bind the Old World to the New :.
There has been going on in the geo.
logical ages two constant streams of
water and air; the water of the gulf be-
ing superheated and hence specifically y
lighter, would rise to the surface, and +,
in order to restore the equilibrium, the
colder streams from the north would
flow underneath, the upper or heated
stream making due north and travelling
north all the time, while the under
stream would be travelling south. The
upper current being much warmer at
the start, as it reached the higher lati-
tudes, became somewhat chilled, and in
turn the under-current emanating from
the polar regions, as it would come
south to supply the vacuum, would, as
Mt reached the lower latitudes, become
warmer, and a point would, of course,
be reached by both of these tides where
the temperature of both would be equal.
The current going north carries with it
a residuum of silt, though small in
quantity, and when the two oppo sing
eurreats meet and the motion of either
is arrested the silt will be dropped an d
precipitated as in the formation of the
bar at the mouth of river. The cur
rent coming south is ladened with ice
bergs broken off of the mainland of
Greenland, and continental America.
These icebergs were produced by gla-
ciers way up in the mountains, and as
the glaciers were travelling seaward on
them fell the debris and talus from the
mountain sides, and the bottom parts
of the glaciers would imbed in them
selves rocks of various kinds, and on
the glaciers were various animals,
namely: polar bear and arctic fox an d
other varieties. These imm ,nse glaciers
coming down slowly the declivities of
Greenland and Continental America
would go far beneath the surface of the
sea and sometimes reach the bottom of
it and, following that bottom until
buoyed up Ivy the heavier water, would
break loose possibly way up the noun
tain side and float out to sea when they
encountered these arctic streams coming
southwark.
The iceberg, composed ordinarily of
about 90 per cent. of solid material, OBJ
tanned as described above, travelling
southwark, would encounter the warm
streams in the latitude of Labrador and,
melting, would deposit its burden of
rock, dirt, silt, animal bones, etc. This
has been going on for many million
years, and the surface of the bottom of
the sea in that place has been built up
until nearly all across the Atlantic the
depth along the banks of Newfoundland
is rarely more than FIVE hundred feet,
with deeper places where the ice-floes
were less frequent. This great, MEYER
ending exchange of waters is still going
on and will go On forever, and the
height Of land, as it is called, is still
being built qn, and biologists tell us
that in the near future, geologically,
the land will appear at the surface of
the ocean, and the railroads, without
any grading or engineering feats, will
be permitted peacefully to lay their
tracks across the shores of England.
The strip of land will be two hundred
and fifty miles wide, so that commerce
can be carried along by the railroad
tracks. The Atlantic cable is laid
across this height of land already. A
similar phenomenon, as described above,
is going on in the Pacific Ocean, and is
nearer the top than the Atlantic-the
passage being more constructed the
Aleutian Islands having been made in
this way, and when both geological
phenomena are completed, America will
be connected with both continents both
ways. We will not stop to discuss the
international problem arising as to
whom the land will belong, nor the laws
to govern the same, but hope that the
coming generation will be wise enough
to see the way out of the difficulty.