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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... "
Plants, the earth & minerals
by Charles Baker - 1866
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Benedicite; Or, The Song of the Three Children: Being Illustrations of the ...

George Chaplin Child - God - 1879 - 418 pages
...famous is the Gulf-stream. " There is a river in the ocean," says its eloquent historian Maury ; " 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, while its...
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Report of the ... Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, Volume 2

Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - Public health - 1880 - 376 pages
...the ocean. Professor Maury, in his ' Physical Geography of the Sea,' says of the Gulf Stream : — ' 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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School geography

Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1882 - 278 pages
...Gulf Stream is a part of this current. This stream " is a river in the ocean. In the severest draughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banka and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain,...
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First (-Sixth) geographical reader. [With] Home-lesson book for Second ...

Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 270 pages
...Arctic Ocean would most probably be a vast mass of impenetrable ice. 44.— THE GULF STREAM.— I. There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bed are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth...
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Swinton's Fifth Reader and Speaker

William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...most ancient and the poetic name of England. 1. There is a river in the ocean. Its banks and its bed are of cold water, 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. 2. In the whole world there is no other such majestic flow...
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Swinton's Reader and Speaker, Volume 5

William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...most ancient and the poetic name of England. 1. There is a river in the ocean. Its banks and its bed are of cold water, 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. 2. In the whole world there is no other such majestic flow...
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The revised series. First (-Sixth) reader, ed. by T. Morrison

Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...con-foT-ma,'-tioT},shape,figure. ev'-i-dences, proofs, traces. re-tard', hinder, keep back. tem'-per, moderate, soften 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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Geographical reader, Book 7

John Richard Blakiston - 1884 - 256 pages
...following oft-quoted words of Captain Maury contain an eloquent account of the Gulf Stream : — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...fails, and in the mightiest 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...
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Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, Volume 14

1887 - 572 pages
...allowed the temple to lie in ruin while they built ceiled houses for themselves. 200. Gulf Stream. 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 warm. The gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth...
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The Royal Gallery of Poetry and Art: An Illustrated Book of the Favorite ...

American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...Pike's Peaks, and from a wide extent of country west of the dividing range of the continent. THEKE is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...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 such majestic flow of waters....
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