Show Floating Islands Wall f all passengers s carried by ocean I. I Vesting esting Many of them have been s. s were originally parts of low of storm or flood and and floated ted ou ot and nd other tropical rivers often te of f the bits of land are of large s a sori aon i ion on ori even at times including trees t tJ let while their branches and leaV leave waves ves break up these islands shor favorable conditions they travee trave e longest voyage of floating islan n 1893 This island was first sea sea se seE seEf a of f two acres It bore no trees bu but 2 place It was thirty feet high J Jeam earn eam in traveling slowly and with oc oce und d swell was working beneath it orage rage In the spring of the year ff f fl ch ched d the latitude of Wilmington I 1 f It though hough there must have been m my nd d in the tropics By the end of L-ing L g toward the Grand Banks It Fir finitely tely and several vessels report n northwest of the Azores and it Itt t JIt It was much smaller and less It met destruction In the Oct miles and if as was thought it c n twice ice that distance It is quite ione I Ione one under more favoring fertile e the complete journey from Ame Arne t distribution of animal species this Island w nt t to pieces in Oct I h ve floated down dO into this regi regie oger ngel preserved Ainslee's Ainslee's currents floating islands are the most found voyaging ng on the Atlantic These ig W r river yer banks which broke awaS awa away under t t to to sea sa The The Orinoco Orinoco i lITe Amazon mazon La send forth such pieces s of their shores ize ze and car carry carrE animals insects and vege- vege ic tle e roots of Ich serve to hold the land as sails for the wind Generally ly Iy after fliey put to sea but sometimes I I tong long distances 3 I accor according ing to Government records took n of off a and apparently it had an anIt It was covered with bushes and hove bove the sea Tevel If was in the Gulf undulations to show where the Probably it way away from its river sr or r toward the latter ratter part of July it had hadel el No large animal rife life had been seen of the small creeping things which August it had passed Cape Cod and was followed the steamer teamer lane routes quite e l it One month later it was In mid- mid s 3 voyage evidently was beginning to tell compact It was not seen again and ober ber gates gares But But it had nad traveled at least roe ime fro the Orinoco it must have covos cov- cov os ble that thal floating islands larger than m ces during past ages have rica lea to Europe Sr ca and so brought Of course it is not absolutely certain ber iber It might though this is not proba n a of calms and seaweed where it would ne ie |