Show FLOODING THE SAHARA r A recent article on the Scientific American discusses the proposal of 01 Professor Etchegoyen to flood a portion pot pOI tion of the Sahara Saha-ra with sea water bj bI means of a channel from tram the Mediterranean and thereby to cre create te an Inland Inland In land seal sea which as he claims would affect the climate make for conditions conditions condi condl of fertility and for possibilities of colonization and provide a channel of communication Quite apart from the or desirability of the scheme Itself a considerable number of crimes says Nature seem seem to have bave been committed in the name of at physical physical cal geography by opponents o oL the scheme who have foreseen that tho the new subtropical area aiea thus would so far affect the climate of ol more northern lands as to bring the tho Arctic belt southward to Denmark and they even even seriously discuss the probability of or the upsetting of the I earths earth's equilibrium by the displacement displacement displacement displace displace- ment of ot so great a body of sea water The writer of at the article at pains to calm these fe fears rs shows 5 that the total area of the Sahara capable of ot floodIng flooding flooding flood- flood Ing from the s sea a is no large arge proportion proportion tion of ot the whole and appears to wel welcome welcome I come the Idea as m ch for its own romantic ro- ro ma mantle mantic fake gake a as for any benefits which 1 a LV g confer He J Is not concerned to re JJ 11 Ob 1 h ull at condition of f a y nt an of t. t sea seawater water A W with n U fL yil one A tn I nel connecting It egen r 1 nine rine cIrculation |