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 & mineralsby Charles Baker - 1866Snippet view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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