<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> If this land existed it did not extend to America (for the fossils of the Miocene of America are representative & not identical): where then was the edge or coastline of it, Atlantic - wards? Look at the form & constancy of the great fucus - bank & consider that it is a Sargassum bank . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Edward Forbes, from the Darwin Correspondence Project </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> If this land existed it did not extend to America (for the fossils of the Miocene of America are representative & not identical): where then was the edge or coastline of it, Atlantic - wards? Look at the form & constancy of the great fucus - bank & consider that it is a Sargassum bank . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Edward Forbes, from the Darwin Correspondence Project </Td> </Tr> <P> The Sargasso Sea is home to seaweed of the genus Sargassum, which floats en masse on the surface there . The sargassum is not a threat to shipping, and historic incidents of sailing ships being trapped there are due to the often calm winds of the horse latitudes . </P>

The land near to the sea or the ocean