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Show . ON THE SARGASSO S ' A Gmn Mareojiaplier Hm SallcA Tbers and Knows All About It. 1 The Sargasso sea, or floating masses of gulf weed in mid-Atlantic, which impeded im-peded the ships of Columbus four hun-" dred 3-ears ago, according to the London Globe, has been the subject cf careful study by Dr. Krummel, a German mai e-ogTapher, e-ogTapher, who takes a different view of its origin from that commonly accepted. He shows, to begin with, that the sea is much more extensive than Humboldt supposed. The middle or thickest part is elliptical in form, the greut axis: lying along the tropic of cancer and the foci at forty-five degrees and seventy degrees west longitude. Around this are more extensive but thinner accumulation: accumula-tion: of the weed, which vary vith the prevailing winds. . The gulf weed (fueus nataus), which; with its little round "ber.ies,'" is not' unlike the mistletoe in form, but of a brownish-yellow color, has been thought to have lost its property of rooting on rocks and to have acquired the power of living afloat. It has even been suggest t'd that the sea marks the site of a submerged sub-merged continent; apparently the lost Atlantis. Dr. Krummel holds that the weed has simply been drifted to its present pres-ent position by the gulf strejon and its affluents from the West Indian islands and the gulf of Mesico. It is now proved that the gulf stream is not a single narrow "river of the ocean," as Maury poetically described it, but consists of a number of currents not only from the Mexican gulf but the Antilles. The weed, according to Dr. Krummel, would take fifteen days to float as far north as the latitude of Cape Hatteras and five and a half months to reach the Azores. In' the Sargasso sea it becomes heavy and sinks, but the supply is kept up by the gulf stream. Dr. Krummel is certainly cer-tainly right in giving the Sargasso sea a much wider area than Humboldt did and than our maps usually portray. It has been encountered some two or three hundred miles northeast of Barbadoes; but whether this weed is solely carried from the West Indies and the gulf is perhaps open to doubt, s |