 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 592by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pages
...languages. Both of our extracts are from this work. THE GULF STREAM. THERE is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the...floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom r.re of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1876 - 346 pages
...the beginning of the first chapter in the work just above quoted : " 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 bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1876 - 336 pages
...the beginning of the first chapter in the work just above quoted : " 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 bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | John Richardson Phillips - 1876 - 418 pages
...respecting it. We learn from him and other reliable authorities that "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 bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | John Small - 1876 - 646 pages
...the name of the Gulf Stream. Lieut. Maury thus describes it : — ' 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 bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 366 pages
...existence. Dr. Maury has well described it. He says : — " There is a river in the bosom of the ocean : in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the...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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...languages. Both of our extracts are from this work. THE GULF STREAM. THERE is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the...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... | |
 | Elizabeth M A.F. Saxby - 1877 - 160 pages
...Have you not heard, reader, of the Great Gulf-Stream." — Page 22. " 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 bottoms are of cold water, whilst its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...this work. THE GULF STEEAM. THEEE is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never f.iils, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom ere of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth... | |
 | Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - 1880 - 376 pages
...his ' Physical Geography of the Sea,' says of the Gulf Stream : — ' There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the...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... | |
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