Show add new ship lane to old routes hudson bay trail to have but short season washington the passage this autumn of the first commercial cargo of wheat from churchill tile the newly opened port on hudson hay bay to london lays down the latest and probably the northernmost steamer lane of importance that will ever cross the atlantic ocean according to a bulletin from the national geographic society the longheld long held idea of the ex es bittence of a passage north of the continent open enough to be used by freight ships has been proved arrone erroneous ous and the hudson bay country Is therefore the region farthest north from which cargoes are likely to originate it Is pointed out the hudson bay steamer route la Is free from ice fee la in its western third for only a short period late baeb summer bummer and early each fall but because ships using tile the route can reach re aab or more miles closer to the great canadian wheat fields than by the st lawrence great lake routes it is believed that the newest steamer lane will be crowded with ships each season first ocean trail A constant northern progression of shipping lanes across the atlantic can be noted since columbus led the way between the old and new worlds continues the bulletin that famous trailblazing trail blazing trip first skirted the northwestern shoulder of africa to I 1 he canary islands and then led almost due west a little north of the tropic of cancer the landfall at bating island from this experimental voyage columbus learned something of the life of the land in the west indies and on his next nest voyage he be continued southwestward from the canaries to the larger west indian islands this diagonal line which the great admiral traced from near the southern tip of spain to the an tilles became the earliest of the freight and passenger lanes innes in the atlantic south of the spanish ship lane tile the portuguese established a route between the mother country and the eastern coast of brazil this Is still one of the major atlantic lanes radiate from britain except for a few less heavily traveled shipping routes such as those between portugal and the mouth of the amazon france and french guiana and holland and dutch guiana the transatlantic lanes have been traced north of the old spanish ocean highway Y one extends from the strait of gibraltar to new york and on to other eastern american ports port practically all the rest radiate from the british isles or the mouth of the english channel as the ribs of an opened fan radiate from its handle in all the world there Is no |