 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 Arctic seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more...  elementary treatise on nautral philosophy - Página 286por a. privat deschanel - 1873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1886 - 524 páginas
...Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon,...far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly marked that their line of junction with the common sea-water... | |
 | J. Wesley Van Dervoort - 1886 - 530 páginas
...perceived on the southern borders of Iceland and Spitsbergen. The waters are of a deep indigo blue, and are so distinctly marked that their line of junction...with the common seawater may be traced by the eye. The existence of the Gulf Stream can also be readily ascertained by means of a thermometer, the temperature... | |
 | 1886 - 552 páginas
...Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. t 98 GLIMPSES OP NATURE. THE HEATH-COCK. 3OD-MOEROW to thy sable beak And glossy plumage dark and sleek,... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 páginas
...Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. The currents of the ocean are among the most important of its movements. They carry on a constant interchange... | |
 | 1894 - 260 páginas
...river is the Gulf Stream. 3. " There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon,...and its volume more than a thousand times greater!" Other writers have also waxed eloquent over this ocean river. A learned French author says—"Without... | |
 | 1894 - 832 páginas
...and bottoms are of cold water, while its surface waters in parts rises to 86 deg. Fahr. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. The Gulf of Mexico is its foundation, its mouth is in the Arctic Sea and the Gulf Stream is its name.... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States - 1894 - 400 páginas
...Stream. 2. There is no other flow of water in the world so majestic as this. Its current is swifter than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. In the Strait of Florida the Gulf Stream is thirtytwo miles wide, and over two thousand feet deep,... | |
 | John Madden - 1897 - 570 páginas
...WATER. majestic flow of waters. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coast, are of an indigo blue; they are so distinctly marked that their line of junction with the common sea water may be traced by the eye — so sharp is the line that often half the vessel may be floating... | |
 | Madison Clinton Peters - 1899 - 372 páginas
...seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon,...far out from the gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue ; they are so distinctly marked that their line of junction with the common sea water... | |
 | Eugene Cunningham Branson - 1899 - 400 páginas
...Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. 234 FIFTH READER. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, 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... | |
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