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SPECTRAL CONTINENT.

EXPLORERS' VISION OF GIANT PEAKS AND HEADLANDS..

Is there in the Arctic region a vast unexplored continent, of over million square miles in area, which awaits discovery by some modern Columbus?

the Schmidt, Dr. Johannes director of the Carlsberg Labora- tory, Copenhagen, has just started on a six months survey of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, to com- plete his Investigations into the life-history of the common eel. Until quite recently the mystery Or are the peaks and headlands of eel propagation eluded all which have been sighted by attempts to solve it.

What was explorers merely a spectral illu- certain was that their breeding sion of the Arctic wastes? places were not in rivers or inland waters. Here fully developed cels live for years, but when from seven to 12 years old, and several feet long, the females leave the possibility. rivers and make for the open sea, It is generally believed by where it was clear they had their Arctic explorers that somewhere ||breeding-places. But no one had to the west or the north-west of ever seen an eel smaller than Axel Heiberg Land there lies a about 1 in., much too big to be vast unexplored Island. accepted as a comparatively new- born baby.

In an interesting article in Chambers' Journal, Mr. Paul Tyner deals with this fascinating

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Mystery Land.

This unknown region is estimat-

Relatively speaking, this land is as yet unknown, as was the Continent of America" to Columbus when he set sail from Spain in quest of a western passage to the Indies,

Believing that the breeding- places must be sought far out in fed to be about 1,000,000 square the occun, Dr. Schmidt began his miles in area. search for them shortly before the war. When pence was concluded the Danish Government lent Dr. Schmidt 2 converted mine- sweeper, and in this vessel "he ultimately found the long-sought spawning places of the eel in the vicinity of the Sargasso Sen. Here he found the vertiable eel larvae, less than half-an-inch in length, only one-third the size of the smallest ever before seen. The Atlantic breeding-places lie between 65 deg. and 48 deg. W. longtitude and 20 deg. and 30 deg. N. latitude, and here the cels spawn in late winter and spring, the larvae being in huge masser through which the nets can only

Its discovery may bring as big surprises to the denizens of Europa, Asia, Africa and America in our day as the sur- prises which the Spanish Con-. quistadores came upon in the discovery of Mexico, of Astecs and the Peru of the Incas. This land may prove to be the home of flora and fauna as yet! uncatalogued.

Or more likely it may be dreary waste of ice and snow,

be drawn with difficulty. In April with no inhabitants but polar they are half an inch long, in bears and seals.

Juno an inch, and in the early

autumn about 14 inches. During On the assumption that this the following winter they migrate large area of land really does east and north-east, and in the exist, it had been christened summer, then 3 inches long, ar "Crocker Land" by Peary when he found in the Mediterranean and first sighted what he regarded as off the coast of Europe. They its great peaks and headlands. then dininish in size and become elvers, finding their way into the rivers when about three years old, travelling inland, and often for- saking the rivers for ponds, which they reach by wriggling across the grass. In fresh waters they grow As he pursued them they in size and live for years, until vanished, so "Crocker Land" was

Wiped off the Map.

Donald MacMillan went over the route traversed by Peary, and also sighted "peaks and head- lands."

n stage is reached when the call wiped off the map

once

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Later on MacMillan made strong to be resisted, and they return at great speed to the ocean more sighted the peaks and head-

another expedition, and and their spawning ground in the Sargasso Sea. The extent and lands; but, as before, they vanish- duration of eel larvel migrationed when a gale blew up. But has no parafiel in the animal king he found other indications of the dom, and among fishes the cel is existence of an enormous tract of the only example known whose solid earth, among other things variations in the tides which no propagation and development

other hypothesis could explain. covers so immense an area of the globe. How be solved this zoolo-

Between. Amundsen. and Mac- gical mystery Dr. Schmidt explainMillan it cannot be long before ed at the Liverpool meeting of the the world will have the satisfac British Association three years tion ago, and now he is about to com- plete the work he has been engaged on for the last 20 years' by a similar pallent investigation of the eel regions of the Indian and Pacific.

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