 | a. privat deschanel - 1873 - 1076 pàgines
...south, and finally loses itself in the regions of the equator. BI | ~^~Fig. 215.—Heating by Hot Water. is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - 1874 - 626 pàgines
...floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. There is in the world no other such majestic flow...than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume a thousand times greater." Such is the epic language in which Maury's fine work commences.J After having... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1874 - 328 pàgines
...of warm. It takes its rise in the Gulf of Mexico (hence its name), and empties into the arctic seas. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater." This great current is of the most beautiful indigoblue colour... | |
 | Augustin Privat-Deschanel - 1874 - 288 pàgines
...There is on earth no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current Fig. 215.— Heating by Hot Water. is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are... | |
 | John Martin (of Melbourne.) - 1875 - 104 pàgines
...of warm ; it takes its rise in the Gulf of Mexico, and empties into Arctic seas ; this mighty river is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other...than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina Coast, are... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pàgines
...Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. Tiiere is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters....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.... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1875 - 390 pàgines
...majestic flow of water ; its current is more rapid than the Amazon, more impetuous than the Mississippi, and its volume is more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far as the Carolina coast, are of indigo blue ; they are so distinctly indicated that their line of junction... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1876 - 336 pàgines
...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...than the Mississippi or the Amazon and its volume more than a thousand times greater." Its waters are bluer than those of the surrounding sea, and the... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pàgines
...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...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.... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1876 - 346 pàgines
...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...than the Mississippi or the Amazon and its volume more than a thousand times greater." Its waters are bluer than those of the surrounding sea, and the... | |
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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... 
