American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 47Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University., 1844 |
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Page 413 - 1844. Researches on Light; an examination of all the Phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays; embracing all the known photographic processes and new discoveries in the art. By Robert Hunt, Secretary to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. London,
Page 170 - Still as a slave before his lord. The ocean hath no blast— His great bright eye most silently Up to the moon is cast.
Page 168 - Nay, more; at the very season of the year when the Gulf Stream is rushing in greatest volume through the Straits of Florida and hastening to the north with the greatest rapidity, there is a cold stream from Baffin's Bay, Labrador, and the coasts of the north, running to the south with equal velocity.
Page 177 - from the fish of the sea. The whales first pointed out the existence of the Gulf Stream by avoiding its warm waters. Along our own coasts, all those delicate animals, and marine productions, which delight in warmer waters, are wanting; thus indicating by their absence the cold current from the north now
Page 180 - hotter than melted iron. With such an element of atmospherical disturbance in its bosom, we might expect storms of the most violent kind to accompany it in its course. Accordingly, the most terrific that rage on the ocean, have been known to spend their fury in and near its borders.
Page 207 - for while the osteological development is more or less that of the Negro, the hair is long but sometimes harsh, thus indicating that combination of features which is familiar in the mulatto grades of the present day. It is proper, however, to remark in relation to the whole series of crania, that while the greater part is readily
Page 166 - and that consequently, instead of descending, its bed represents the surface of an inclined plane from the north, up which the lower depths of the stream must ascend. If we assume its depth off Bernini to be two hundred fathoms, (which are thought
Page 166 - and runs by the side of them right back into those very reservoirs at the south, to which theory gives an elevation sufficient to send out entirely across the Atlantic a jet of warm water said to be more than three thousand times greater than the Mississippi River!
Page 38 - for example, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coast of Brittany, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters are as rigorous as at Upsal.
Page 164 - in speaking of the importance which the discovery of these warm and cold currents would prove to navigation, pertinently asked the question, " If these stripes of water had been distinguished by the colors of red, white and blue, could they be more distinctly discoverable than they are by the constant use of the thermometer?