Middle Ocean

Tremendous let her extend her name abroad to the extremest boundaries of the earth, where the middle ocean separates Europe from Africa, where the swollen Nile waters the plains; deriving more bravery from the contempt of gold yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hid in the earth, than from forcing it out for the uses of mankind, with a hand ready to make depredations on every thing that is sacred.

Marseille, the unwearied contestant for Mediterranean trade during twenty-six centuries, and the city wherein the earliest naval traditions of France were formed, whence fleets were sent before Rome’s day of power to challenge the great Mediterranean port-city, Carthage, is today the principal naval base for the allies upon the middle ocean; […]

He sailed in the Middle Ocean Right up into the Turkish shore, And in the harbor he made an anchor, And then his sailin’ days were o’er.