280 tHE ^SRCASSO W^EElt, 



Ikct which either proves the common opiuiou 

 thsfis this species never stray Ikr ftotia to be 

 itt ewr, CM* that some unkiiowii hmd masiss in 

 the vicinity." 



Oji the 31st of March, in hititude 22" north, 

 and longitude 4P west, the Sargasso weed was 

 iimt seen, a few fi&em Qccasionally floating by 

 iheJsld|i^ His^t Ih^i^ fhaa^ are ]^rodueed[ within 

 the tropics, there can lilUr^ly he a question ; but 

 at what di'pth they vegetate is still iuvoive'l in 

 obscurity : neither is it clearly ascertained why 

 tlie banks of weed should always occur in the 

 jaam pl&ees* The s«ppOSitf<Ma that they proceed 

 with the Gulf Stream fi-om tlie Gulf of Mexico 

 — whence the original name of o-ulf w"ced — is 



(-3 O 



now exploded. This weed is cousidered to extend 

 between the eighteenth and twenty-second pa- 

 tfillefe of hmh iM^iS^i the twenty-fifth and 

 fortictJi meridians of west longitude. 



Mr. Neill justly observes, that the gulf 

 stream would convey them rather to the hanks 

 of Newfoundland than to the latitudes in wliicii 

 tliey nsnallj msm; undit eonid not in mf case 

 acentnulate tli6ni to the soni^i of the iUores."* 



* Greviiie's Algiu Britain t-a*, 8vo. — Tlie figure ol" the 

 iiart/fissttm ruhjare in this work is coloui ttl Car too dark, aiul 

 (Uk2S not seoui to liiivf Uctn done IVom a icct-ai specinitu. 



