| Show M i r REMODELING TIE THE PACE FACE OF OE THE GLOBE n n n t III W rho way n In which ninn man Is altering and andas andas as he the tho physical of et the earth Is described In a 1 y a writer recent that abet hat has hns been done In this direction ec Is but an fraction of that tion pae whIch of In be bedone done Some or the WIS In whIch man M M has hns been beell or proposes to mod Iry the geography of the tho planet on which he lives Ies are described In the quoted below Dally DailY Mall London The fhe writer begIns by pr pre dieting the future transformation of the Sahara Desert Into Inlo an Inland sea lie He says saysA A canal sixty miles long connecting u with the Atlantic the ho vast allt which rune runa close up UI to o the coast nearly midway between the tho twentieth t and thirtieth parallels ot of latitude would do dothe the tho business beautifully Thu Tho water would not of course cover cor the tho entire surface or of the tho desert hero and there thoro portions lying above the sea Rea level Itol Theta would become the Islands elands or of the tho new Sahara ocean What would be the tho results that would ensue upon ullon thIs transformation Sorno Samo would bo be good and some bad Among the latter may maybe ho be mentioned the destruction of time tho vineyards or of Southern Europe which depend for their existence upon the warm dry winds from tho great African desert As some tomo compensation for this however the mn me rifles of the tho nations affected would be enabled to gain coln Immediate mud and cas easy access 10 BIt regions now given over oer overto to 0 nd U serie or of more or orless less leIs seaport tons would spring up UI all the tho bor borders borders ders of Morocco and where the tho western watershed of the Nile NilI sinks in III into to the de desert crt and on the th northern fron frontier tier or of the tho I Kongo ono Free Iroe In n a similar foamier the renter greater per por llon of the central Australian dc desert ert covering nn an area or of fUll fully 1 a mutton million square miltS mikes might he be flooded The Tho Island continent would then ho bo recon Into a gigantic atoll and would resemble roughly nn an oval Vel I dish ot of whIch the depressed portion would be covered with water and only the rIm inhabited In this conn connection It may be Interesting to 10 note noto that n a company has I been n formed for tor submerging the tho Yuma desert In South Southern Southern ern California It If the plan liS as at pree lre ent I III carried out 1 a tract of at nb territory corn com nearly mites milos and hb greater portion ot of which lies be bet t tween Wee II and 1000 feet below II will be submerged I But Dul engineering science cab cah transform fertile land Innel Into n a dessert as well all as ac accomplish till the feat The Tho same IRmo writer believes that It If time the French boon boen allowed to get et possession of tho Sudan they r at least they thu diverted limo tho Nile and thus depopUlated Upper Egypt With reo ro gard to diversion or of the Nile lie he says saya further It even n been suggested that It might b be b turning Into ono one or of the many lOony lateral ravines which run at right angles to the pros ont oat course of find and a new outlet for It In the ned fled Sea and there by to In FU prices f time that shoot or of water Into a treat fresh freshwater water wat lr lake To accomplish this It wOUld of c bo be necessary to build n a giant dam ocr across the southern neck neat near and to regulate or rather stop altogether the Inward lIow or of the ed through the tho Suez Canala big task but one not Impossible of ac Brief reference to 10 made to the Pana Panama Panama ma and Nicaraguan canals an and the French war wor canal between the mouths or of the Loire and ancI the tho which when completed wI will enable Ironclads to dodge round behind when passing from the tho Atlantic to the tho or vleo vcr versa Hut But It Is the comparatively little I engineering tents feats which have slowly i but surely Burely altered In the past and will niter alter In the futuro the tho face of the earth carth A WitS was mooted to cut n a ship canal through the tho center c of m Ireland beginning Rt at Dublin and It II h 11 I 4 I ing M at It wows 1 r V l I difficult teat feat to accomplish for most mOlt of the country through winch It would pace II Is tint flat and bony boggy I nut But Just consider the result Ir Irland Iro land would no longer be cine island bUt bUttO two tO and many or of time the best of melodies would ho bo n a palpable misnomer b Even this hoor ho he b hotter r I than to have hao our own silver Thames transformed Into n 0 huge ditch It 11 ocean greyhounds and tramp cargo steamers belching smoke through live I den woods or over Oer Cookham e elet let fI such an eventuality I Is bf y no mP means ns Impossible for Cor It hn has al ady been bruited to Construct 1 a ship canal anal from Bristol Iol to London by way of th the t 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