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A little while ago, in the course No part of the world has per- of a notable speech on British haps been draped in such mystery, trade and finance, Mr. Walter Leaf attached to it as the Sargasso Sen, or has had such gruesome talos pointed out that our export trade that region of the North Atlantic was changing its character strotching from the Gulf of that we were exporting less raw Mexico north and eastwards past and senit-manufactured material,

Florida valmost to the Azores. Legend vested it with long-lost but more valuable high-class ships stuck so fast in the floating manufacturers, such as muchinery weed which forms " vast tract and the textiles. Certainly recent of what is almost land" that trade, developments point to the escape was impossible, their crews perishing miserably among truth of this conclusion, and it is generations of craft lying rotting ono which brings with it con-

in the dense entanglement of siderable encouragement. While seen again by man. No storm, it marine vegetation, never to be

we are deploring the decline in was said, ever 'dissipated this im- our exports of coal, pig-iron and penetrable aquatic jungle. Nor steel-though even that, it is was the weed its only horror, for gratifying to find, promises to be it was belleved, to be the haunt cheeked-wo are making marked of marino monsters long since headway in the output and ship- cxtinct in other parts! An in- ment abroad of special engineer-teresting paper contributed xe- ing plants, rolling-stock, engines, cently to the Royal Geographical boilers and electrical machinery, Society by Captain C. C. Dixon fall of a much more costly charac- clearly shows how. mythical the ter and involving more skilled | "mystery" of the Sargasso Sea labour than the cruder materials really is. Captain Dixon, who ou which public attention has has crossed this sen 22 times in been centred. It is certain that sailing ships and seven times in most of the improvement in trude steamers, states: "The weed is lately experienced has been in this ever anywhere sufficiently denso direction. In the last three or to prevent or impede to any four months this country has been appreciable extent the passage of singularly successful in obtain any vessel, not even a rowing ing valuable contracts from bont. I have also made over, 30 abroad for hydro-electric plants, passages through it and I have structural engineering work, never scan the 'Gulf weed," of locomotives, wagons and a variety which it is composed, any, thickać of machinery, and it is in these than a 'scum' on the surface," special branches of engineering Regarding the "Monsters" sup- that real activity is now develop posed to inhabit it, Captain Dixon ing. This is confirmed by an states: "The popular idea that announcement just sent out by the Sargasso Sen teems with life the British Engineers' Associn- of great variety, is an illusion. tion, which, in reporting an im-Both amount and variety are very proved demand from

limited." overseas,

He concurs with the states that the Dominions are call-statement made by Charles Dar ing for substantial electrical and win when on the voyage in the other machinery in connection Beagle that: "There was more

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