 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pàgines
...Stream. 2. In the whole world there is no other such majestic flow of waters as the Gulf Stream; for its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. 3. The currents of the ocean are the most important of its movements.... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 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.... | |
 | John Richard Blakiston - 1884 - 256 pàgines
...floods it never overflows. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. There is in the world no other such majestic flow...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 328 pàgines
...Stream. 2. In the whole world there is no other such majestic flow of waters as the Gulf Stream ; for its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. 4. The ocean currents are, for the most part, the result of the... | |
 | 1887 - 572 pàgines
...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. There is in the world no other so majestic flow of water. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume... | |
 | 1886 - 524 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, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pàgines
...while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is 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. t 98 GLIMPSES OP NATURE. THE HEATH-COCK. 3OD-MOEROW to thy sable... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 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.... | |
 | 1894 - 260 pàgines
...in the Gulf of Mexico, and empties into the Arctic Seas. This mighty river is the Gulf Stream. 3. " There is in the world no other such majestic flow...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.... | |
 | 1894 - 832 pàgines
...fails. Its banks 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... | |
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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... 
