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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 6

Safaga shelters boliind Island, on the southern (Egyptian) const of the Bed Sea, about 24 hours' steam from the quaint port of Suez. Safari, is one of the modern wonder-places of Egypt, and at least one steamer well known in these waters has ground its sides against the little wooden wharf there, whilst, it took in a load of the grey dust which gives the place n niche in the hall of the world's wonders. The ,trey dust is rock phosphate ground to powder by machinery. It. comes from a ilft. strata of pure rock phosphate, situated 28 miles hack from the coast and connected with the port by the Anglo-Egyptian Phosphate Company's railway. This do'i/osit is said to be the fossilised remains of fish bories —believed h be the bones of mammoth fish that, inhabited a hike or arm of the sea, and were cut off by some upheaval in 'the misty past Whether flint is so or not, the fact remains that the rockit is as hard as quartz—often ronlains teeth and other evidences that the iemnins are those of fish: further than that no one can say. The rock, which is extremely valuable for ngricullunil manure, is' not unknown in New Zealand. Most workers in Switzerland labour about eleven hours a day. Greeks call themselves "Autochthones" —sprung from tho earth, or "earth-born" —.their own tribute to their ancient origin.