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...so remarkable, that we can not blame the priority thus given to its history. To use his own words: "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...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...

...Lieutenant Maury's description of the Gulf Stream," — handing him a book. Charlie read as follows: — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its hanks and bottom are of cold water, while its current is warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain,...

...Leisure Hour. Extract from a Review of Maury's worlc " upon the great and watery empire of the Globe." " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...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...

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...played as to produce the maximum of effect. For, to use the striking language of this capable observer, "there is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...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...

...operation, and the ocean-streams which are their result are hence perennial. " There is," says Maury, " a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it...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...

...of the most majestic and extraordinary river upon the globe. " There is a river," says MF Maury, " in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails,...banks and its bottoms are of cold water, while its surface is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is...

...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 ite month is in the arctic seas. There is in the world no such majestic flow of waters.' Issuing through...

...the violence of its waves by cushions of still water. CHAPTER II. § 70-143. — THE GOLF STREAM. 70. THERE is a river in the ocean : in the severest droughts it> color. it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows ; its banks and its bottom are...