Show DES DESERT ERT OCEAN IN AFRICA I 1 sahara to be covered with ships and surrounded by fertile fields ar ard d forests the project ot of converting the des ert ot of sahara into a vast inland sea one half the size ot of the ean Is again being agitated calelly by prof a distinguished scientist he believes he has worked out a satisfactory plan tor for the engl nearing work necessary and Is now urging that france add this to its ott oth er northern africa enterprises about one fourth ot of the great desert is below tho the sea level and by his bis plan of cutting a canal some 50 miles long to the north coast of africa the whole region would be covered with a sea from 10 to CO 60 fathoms deep and navi gable by steamers thus producing a flourishing traffic between french west africa it ft Is also argued that all the arm arid section surrounding the desert w would be rendered as fertile as europe and that millions of people now leading a precarious existence could support themselves in comfort two objections are raised by other scientists one Is the possible dam age which might be done to europe by an alteration of climatic conditions on it a large scale and another the imagined possibility that the aquill barium of the tarth earth would be affected by the displacement of so BO many billions of tons tois of water most sa however consider that such objections are exaggerated |