 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 bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in...  Man on the Ocean: A Book for Boys - Page 40de Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1863 - 408 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1855 - 778 pages
...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 Arctic seas. It is the Gulf...is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon." The water, as lar out from the Gulf as the coast of Carolina, is an indigo blue, distinctly marked... | |
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...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 Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf...is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon. " Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1855 - 304 pages
...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 Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf...is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon. 2. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...of cold 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...is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon. " Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an iudigo blue. They are so distinctly... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1856 - 636 pages
...and its bottoms are of cold water, 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...and its volume more than a thousand times greater. 2. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so... | |
 | 1856 - 496 pages
...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. There is in...is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...all sides by cold water, while the stream itself is hot. There is not in the world such a magnificent flow of waters ; its current is more rapid than the...and its volume more than a thousand times greater. So well is this stream defined, that one half a vessel may be seen on it, and the other half on the... | |
 | William Hughes - 1859 - 396 pages
...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 Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf...and its volume more than a thousand times greater." * 1. Difference of temperature, and consequent difference of density, constitute one of the disturbing... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1859 - 428 pages
...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 such majestic flow...and its volume more than a thousand times greater. 2. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so... | |
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