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"Sargasso Sea" Quotes from Famous Books

... were on the lookout for him. On September 13th the variations of the magnetic needle were for the first time observed;[3] and on the 15th a wonderful meteor fell into the sea at four or five leagues distance. On the 16th they arrived at those vast plains of seaweed called the Sargasso Sea; and thenceforward, writes the Admiral, they had most temperate breezes, the sweetness of the mornings being most delightful, the weather like an Andalusian April, and only the song of the nightingale ...

— Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia • Various

... the Sargasso Sea (named from the Portuguese word meaning "floating seaweed"). Its thick masses of drifting vegetation reassured them, for the silly legend that it could surround and embed a ship had not then found believers. Many years after it was discovered that several undercurrents met there and died down, ...

— Christopher Columbus • Mildred Stapley

... goodness, we're a long way from that; but if you're anxious to see the Gulf-weed I told you about, we're now in its native home, a region called the Sargasso Sea." ...

— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson

... Stream embraces the Sargasso Sea into which gradually drift the odds and ends that are carried away by the marine currents into the regions of calm, so does our aerial current surround a region where the air is still. It is called ...

— Pierre and Luce • Romain Rolland

... to belong to the Gulf Stream, and found floating in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic. Many small crustacea live amongst it, and assume its bright ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

Words linked to "Sargasso Sea" : sea, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic