 | 1857 - 610 pages
...cannot blame the priority thus given to its history. To use his own words : — VOL. CV. NO. CCXIV. BB ' There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pages
...what a grand simplicity the first chapter of the book commences : " There is a river in the ocean. Jn the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...so remarkable, that we can not blame the priority thus given to its history. To use his own words: "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1855 - 312 pages
...Water between the Bottom of the Sea and the Waters of the Gulf Stream, 56. — It runs up hill, 57. 1 . THERE is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...was published in 1852. It opens with a chapter on the Gulf Stream, of which he speaks thus : — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico ¡9 its fountain, and its... | |
 | 1855 - 778 pages
...this is ably done in eighteen chapters, each of intense interest. He thus describes the Gulf stream: "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...was published in 1852. It opens with a chapter on the Gulf Stream, of which he speaks thus : — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Ita banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its... | |
 | 1856 - 500 pages
...The Gulf Stream," and the first chapter opens with a striking description of that remarkable current. "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of 1856.] The Gulf Stream. 13 warm. The Gulf of Mexico... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pages
...currents is the Qulf Stream. ' There is,' says Lieutenant Maury, in his Physical Geography of the Sea, 'a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Qulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the... 
