 Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will be found crowding together near the centre of the pool where there is the least motion. Just such...  The Student, and Intellectual Observer - Page 3841871Full view - About this book
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...floating along the Gulf Stream. Now, if bita of cork or chafl1, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light sub.stanc.-s will be found crowding together near the centre of the pool, where there is the least... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...outer edge of the Gulf Stream : " Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water,...substances will be found crowding together near the center of the pool where there is the least motion. Just such a basin is the Atlantic Ocean to the... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1859 - 428 pages
...outer edge of the Gulf-Stream. Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water,...motion. Just such a basin is the Atlantic Ocean to the GulfStream ; and the Sargasso Sea is the centre of the whirl. Columbus first found this weedy sea in... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 pages
...outer edge of the Gulf Stream. 129. If bits of cork, or chaff. or any floating substance be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water,...where there is the least motion. Just such a basin « the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf Stream ; and the Saragossa Sea is the centre of the whirl. Columbus... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...outer edge of the Gulf Stream. Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water,...together near the centre of the pool, where there is the leastmotion. Just such a basin is the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf Stream; and the Sargasso Sea is the... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - 1867 - 1030 pages
...of cork be put into a, basin, and a circular motion gken to the water, they will be found crowding near the centre of the pool, where there is the least motion. Such a basin is the Atlantic to the Gulf Stream, and the Sargasso Sea is the centre of the whirl Columbus... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1873 - 724 pages
...be seen floating along the Gulf Stream. Now, if bits of cork, or chaff, or any floating substance, be put in a basin, and a circular motion be given...motion. Just such a basin is the Atlantic Ocean to the Onlf Stream, and the Sargasso Sea is the centre of the whirl. Columbus found this weedy aea in his... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...outer edge of the Gulf Stream. Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water,...Ocean to the Gulf Stream : and the Sargasso Sea is the center of the whirl. Columbus first found this weedy sea, in his voyage of discovery ; there it has... | |
 | John Richardson Phillips - 1876 - 418 pages
...it is often much retarded. ' " Now, if bits of cork, or chaff, or any floating substance be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all light substances will be found crowding together near the centre of the pool. Just such a basin is... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...outer edge of the Gulf Stream. Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water,...Ocean to the Gulf Stream ; and the Sargasso Sea is the center of the whirl. Columbus first found this weedy sea, in his voyage of discovery ; there it has... | |
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