 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
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - 1881 - 472 páginas
...is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is morp rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. MF Maury. THERE is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1910 - 516 páginas
...mouth is in the Arctic seas. 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... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1910 - 240 páginas
...had been too wicked to be alluded to. 6. The current of the Gulf Stream is more rapid than that of the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. 7. He finished his dinner and went back to his work. 8. So spake he, and they all kept silence and... | |
 | F. W. Henkel - 1911 - 370 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." Circulating thus from the Gulf of Mexico, it passes out into the Atlantic Ocean ; it pours out through... | |
 | Frances Squire Potter - 1913 - 200 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. Matthew Fontaine Maury arctic droughts bottom Amazon fountain majestic Mississippi volume Matthew Mexico... | |
 | 1884 - 624 páginas
...current is of warm. The Gult of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas, Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon,...volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly marked that their line of junction with the common sea... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 256 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... | |
 | Clifton Johnson - 1918 - 354 páginas
...furnished by the Gulf Stream which flows out into the Atlantic between Cuba and Florida. The Gulf Stream is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume is fully a thousand times as great. The water is bluer than that of the surrounding sea, and the line... | |
 | Sir William Abbott Herdman - 1923 - 430 páginas
...goes on to tell us that its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is warm, and it is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon,...volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters are not only warmer but are salter and of a bluer colour than those of the sea through which they flow.... | |
 | Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - 1880 - 374 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.' I have previously reminded you that to convert water into vapour a large amount of heat is rendered... | |
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