The Atlantic Ocean is the secondlargest ocean in the world, covering about 31,830,000 square miles. Including bays, gulfs, and other inland seas, the area is more than 41,000,000 square miles. Only the Pacific Ocean is larger.
The largest continent, Asia, has about 17,000,000 square miles. The Atlantic Ocean, particularly the North Atlantic, has borne more traffic than any other trade route in history. A look at the map shows that the Atlantic is shaped like the letter "S." Its northern boundary is about at the northernmost point of the British Isles.
It bends toward the west, to the Grand Banks, where the ocean floor rises like a shelf off the coast of Newfoundland and where are found the most important fishing grounds in the world. The narrow part of the letter "S" is where Dakar, Africa, is only about 1,800 miles from the bulge of Brazil. Then the ocean widens once again to meet the Antarctic in the south. The average depth of the Atlantic Ocean is about two and a half miles. The Atlantic Ocean connects with the Pacific through the Panama Canal and through "Drake's Passage" below South America; and with the Indian Ocean through the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea.
Spiders In The Garden
Watching for their prey in the centre of a radiating geometrical snare, we often find the garden spiders. The beauty of their vertical orb-webs and the large size of these strikingly marked creatures always attract our attention during summer strolls.
Jack & Jill The Vulture Twins
Probably this story of Jack and Jill, the Vulture Twins, would never have been written, if Betsy, Farmer Parsons' old brindle cow, had not refused to come up from the woods one night. But she wouldn't come, so Farmer Parsons had to go down after her.
At Home With Mr. Burroughs
Youth still peered out at me in spite of his crowning thatch of silvery hair when I first met John Burroughs in 1904. As we walked together on our way to his rustic little house in the woods called "Slab-sides,"
