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... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Page 594by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872Full view - About this book
| 1857 - 610 pages
...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 it...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf-stream. There... | |
| 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...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There... | |
| 1857 - 602 pages
...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 it...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.. It is the Gulf Stream. There... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1855 - 312 pages
...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 it...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There... | |
| 1855 - 778 pages
...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 it...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic seas. It is the Gulf stream. There... | |
| University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...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 it...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico ¡9 its fountain, and its mouth ¡3 in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There... | |
| 1855 - 804 pages
...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 it...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... | |
| 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...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Qulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the arctic seas. There is in the world no such... | |
| 1856 - 522 pages
...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 it...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of 1856.] Tlie Gulf Stream. 13 warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic... | |
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