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Show I Atlantic's Floating Islands. .PI1- U' Of all passengers carrkd by ocean i'J! Inteieptlng. Many of them have been f ff Islands wcio originally parts of lnvwlvlni stress of storm or Hood and tloated out ' f i i lat i nnd other troplcil ilvcra often si L Homo of tho tilts of land nre of large lz tatlon. even at times Including tiecs, tht ij intact, whllo their branches nnd lenvns the waves bicak up these 1st mils short! under favoruhlo conditions, they travel J 'J he longest voyage ot limiting Irlund, I v Place In 1S9J. This Island was llrst seen I area of two acres It boro no Irecs, but 1 In one plato It was thirty feet high ab Stream, traveling slowly mid with ona I i ground swell was working bene ith It unchoragu In tho spring of the ear, for reached the latltudo of Wilmington, Del 1 on It, though thciu must havo been mvrl nlound In the tioplcs 1 1 j the end of A i veering towuitl the tlr.ind I! inks It f I nccuriitelv nnd sevtral esnla icportct' ocean, uoithwest of Ihe Azores, nnd Its I on It, It was much smnller and less i I probably It met destiuitlon In tho tit tol I 1000 miles, untl If, ns was thought It can eied twite tint dlstantc It Is quite po this line, tinder moio favoilug tlicums I mndo thr complete Journej fiom AmcrU nbout n distribution of animal speilos that this Island went to pieces In Octob ' nhle, have llonted down Into this region 1 , be long 'i preserved Alnsleo'a Magailne currents floallng Islands aro tho most Hind voyaging on tho Atlantic. These ; river banks which brnki awny under to se.i The Oilnnco, ITu Am izon, Ii ?nd forth such pieces of their shores 0 und car) uulnials, luseets und vogc-! vogc-! roots of which serve to hold the land servo as mills' for tho wind. Oenerallj r utter Ihej put to set, but sometimes, long instances. according lo fioverrtnont iccords, took off nnrhl.i, nnd apparently It had an t was thlikl) covered with bushes nnd ovo tho se.tTevel It was In the Oulf slonnl undulations In show where tho l'robtbly It Vil awny from Its river 1 toward tho laltei part of July it bad I No lngo animal life bad been seen ads of tho small trooping things whkh igust It had passed Capo Cod and wat ullnwed tho sle uner Inno ionics qullti I It rnc nionth later It was in mld-vovngo mld-vovngo evldentlj was beginning to till 'ompait It was not seen again, and er gales Tint It hud tiavoled at 1. us,. 10 frosttbo Orinoco, it must have divisible div-isible thul llontlng Islanils laiger thm tunces" might during past agea havo a to lhuope 0TArrlc.i and so brought Of coiiise It Is not absolutely certain i?r It might, though this Is not proh-of proh-of liIiiis and seaweed, whero It would |
