The Physical Geography of the SeaSampson Low, Son, & Company, 1855 - 287 pàgines |
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abstract log Africa agents America Atlantic Ocean atmosphere atmospherical circulation basin blow bottom calm belt Cancer Cape Cape Horn Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea cause channels climates cloud-ring clouds coast cold water cool course cross Dead Sea depth direction earth east equator equatorial calms equilibrium evaporation extra-tropical regions fathoms feet flow force fresh water gales Grand Banks Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream heat hundred icebergs Indian Ocean Islands isotherm lakes land latitude marine Mediterranean miles Mississippi moisture monsoons motion navigators northeast northern hemisphere observations Pacific parallel Plate VIII polar pole precipitation prevailing rain Red Sea rivers sail salt sea water season ship shores side solid matter southeast trade-winds southeast trades southern southwest specific gravity Straits supply supposed surface current temperature thermometer tion trade-wind regions tropical upper current velocity vessels voyage warm water whales winds and currents winter zone
Passatges populars
Pàgina 174 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Pàgina 75 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Pàgina 174 - God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven ; to make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Pàgina 174 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Pàgina 197 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Pàgina 25 - 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.
Pàgina 66 - Softer than the softest down, more impalpable than the finest gossamer, it leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the lightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight.
Pàgina 67 - It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight of evening and of dawn ; it disperses and refracts their various tints to beautify the approach and retreat of the orb of day.
Pàgina 95 - Therefore, in considering the general laws which govern the physical agents of the universe, and regulate them in the due performance of their offices, I have felt myself constrained to set out with the assumption that, if the atmosphere had had a greater or less capacity for moisture, or if the proportion of land and water had been different — if the earth, air, and water had not been in exact counterpoise — the whole arrangement of the animal and vegetable kingdoms would have varied from their...
Pàgina 82 - The great rivers of North America and North Africa, and all the rivers of Europe and Asia, lie wholly within the northern hemisphere. How is it then, considering that the evaporating surface lies mainly in the southern hemisphere; how is it, I say, that we should have the evaporation to take place in one hemisphere and the condensation in the other? The total amount of rain which falls in the northern hemisphere is much greater, meteorologists tell us, than that which falls in the southern. The annual...