 ... 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...  A smaller manual of modern geography. Physical and political - Page 7by John Richardson (vicar of St. Mary's hospital, Ilford.) - 1880 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...Gulf of Mexico ¡9 its fountain, and its mouth ¡3 in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon. " Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an iudigo blue. They are so distinctly... | |
 | Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic seas. It is the Gulf stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon." The water, as lar out from the Gulf as the coast of Carolina, is an indigo blue, distinctly marked... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon. " Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 312 pages
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon. 2. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - Marine meteorology - 1856 - 636 pages
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....and its volume more than a thousand times greater. 2. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...all sides by cold water, while the stream itself is hot. There is not in the world such a magnificent flow of waters ; its current is more rapid than the...and its volume more than a thousand times greater. So well is this stream defined, that one half a vessel may be seen on it, and the other half on the... | |
 | Theology - 1856 - 522 pages
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon." The question of the cause of the Gulf Stream is ably discussed, and decided on strong evidence. The... | |
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