 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...  Laurie's Graduated series of reading lesson books - Pagina 271door James Stuart Laurie - 1866Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1857 - 610 pagina’s
...blame the priority thus given to its history. To use his own words : — VOL. CV. NO. CCXIV. BB ' There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...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 rapid... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pagina’s
...published in 1852. It opens with a chapter on the Gulf Stream, of which he speaks thus : — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico ¡9 its fountain, and its mouth ¡3 in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world... | |
 | 1855 - 804 pagina’s
...published in 1852. It opens with a chapter on the Gulf Stream, of which he speaks thus : — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Ita banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pagina’s
...currents is the Qulf Stream. ' There is,' says Lieutenant Maury, in his Physical Geography of the Sea, 'a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it...are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Qulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the arctic seas. There is in the world no such... | |
 | 1856 - 500 pagina’s
...Stream," and the first chapter opens with a striking description of that remarkable current. "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of 1856.] The Gulf Stream. 13 warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic... | |
 | 1856 - 522 pagina’s
...Stream," and the first chapter opens with a striking description of that remarkable current. " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...bottom are of cold water, while its current is of 1856.] Tlie Gulf Stream. 13 warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic... | |
 | 1856 - 496 pagina’s
...for other obvious reasons, we insert a few paragraphs with which the volume opens. " There is a rivet in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails,...its bottom are of cold water, while its current is warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream.... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1856 - 636 pagina’s
...and Cold Water in the Gulf Stream, 57.— Runs up Hill, 59. — A Cushion of Cold Water, 60. 1. THERE is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...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... | |
 | 1857 - 164 pagina’s
...Maury's description of the Gulf Stream," — handing him a book. Charlie read as follows: — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its hanks and bottom are of cold water, while its current is warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain,... | |
 | 1858 - 836 pagina’s
...Hour. Extract from a Review of Maury's worlc " upon the great and watery empire of the Globe." " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulfstream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid... | |
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