 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
 | George Chaplin Child - 1868 - 394 pages
...physical phenomena in the world. Its great historian, Maury, thus eloquently describes it : — " 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, while its mouth is in the Arctic seas. It is the Gulf-stream. There... | |
 | Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 pages
...which may fitly be designated the aorta of the ocean. I transcribe his glowing words : — * " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1869 - 548 pages
...hundred new species of animalcule. CHAPTER IL § 70-147. THE GULF STREAM. 70. Its colour. — There is a river in the ocean : in the severest droughts it...water, while its current is of warm ; it takes its riso in the Gulf of Mexico, and empties into Arctic seas ; this mighty river is the Gulf Stream. There... | |
 | 1869 - 798 pages
...Hemisphere, I shall again quote from MF Maury's 'Physical Geography of the Sea,' wherein he says : ' Tbere 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 Sen. It is the Gulf Stream. There... | |
 | 1869 - 732 pages
...for the present, the remembrances of the canine favourites of my childhood. THE GULF STREAM. IHERE is a river in the ocean ; in the severest droughts it...overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, whilst its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic seas.... | |
 | Louis Figuier - 1869 - 1260 pages
...the ocean ; in the several droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflow* ; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while...takes its rise in the Gulf of Mexico, and empties itself into the Arctic Seas. This mighty river is the Gulf Stream. In no other part of the world is... | |
 | 1869 - 810 pages
...I shall again quote from MF Maury's' iPhysical Geography of the Sea,' wherein he says : i There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it...floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom ara of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth... | |
 | 1869 - 646 pages
...habitually reside in their boats, are said to excoo<l two hundred thousand. Tilt GULF STREAM. THESE is a river in the ocean ; in the severest droughts it...mightiest floods it never overflows its banks, and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | 1869 - 506 pages
...same parallels of latitude ? It is caused in the main by what Capt. Maury eloquently describes as " a river in the ocean ;" in the severest droughts it...mightiest floods it never overflows ; its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | John Nicholas Murphy - 1870 - 548 pages
...into a prosperous, contented, and loyal population. APPENDIX. APPENDIX I. * THE GULF STREAM. 'THERE ia a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
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