 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 256 pàgines
...floods it never overflows. 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... | |
 | Clifton Johnson - 1918 - 354 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1927 - 610 pàgines
...its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its foundation, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other...flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississipi or the Amazon, and its volume more than one thousand times greater." This pioneer book of... | |
 | Sir William Abbott Herdman - 1923 - 430 pàgines
...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, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters are not only warmer but are salter and of a bluer colour... | |
 | Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - 1880 - 374 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.' I have previously reminded you that to convert water into vapour... | |
 | Michael L. Weber, Judith Gradwohl - 1995 - 262 pàgines
...ocean: in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. . . . There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology The Sneaker Society started... | |
 | James Vesely - 2004 - 305 pàgines
...while its currents are 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...is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon." Captain Wil had occasionally talked of the Gulf Stream, as did a number of skippers on the tuna boats.... | |
 | George Chaplin Child - 1867 - 392 pàgines
...its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, while its mouth is in the arctic seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other...Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater." Rushing past the point of Florida, it starts... | |
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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... 
