| Show ST ROCKS A submarine submarino Sub marino mountain in the middle of the atlantic ocean almost at tho very center of the atlantic ocean only a trine north of the equator and about half way between south america and africa is a submarine mountain so high that in spite of tho immense depth of the aea it thrusts its peak 70 feet above tho waves this peak startling from its position forms a labyrinth of islets tho whole not over half a mile in circumference known as st pauls rocks so steep ia the mountain of which this lonely resting place of sea birds is tho summit that one mile from these rocks a fathom line with which soundings attempted by ross on his voyage to the antarctic failed to touch bottom were tho bed of the sea to bo suddenly elevated to a level with the dry land st pauls rocks would be the cloud capped peak of a mountain rising in sheer ascent in tho midst of a broad plain they are supposed to have been formed by the sam disturbance of nature which separated the cape verde islands from africa treacherous currents make navigation in the vicinity of these dangerous A brazilian naval officer who passed them on an english steamer tells me that tho evening before they expected to sight them he was told by the captain that at 6 in the morning they would appear about civo miles west at that hour tho officer went on deck and looked to tho westward nothing but an expanse of heaving sea ho chanced to turn and there civo miles to tho eastward were tho rocks the currents had in less than 12 hours carried a full powered steamer ten miles out of her course gustav kobbe in st nicholas |
