 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
 | Frederick Alcock - South America - 1907 - 644 pages
...ocean. In the severest droughts it ' never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never over' flows. Its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, ' while its current is warm. The Gulf of Mexico is 1 its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic seas. It ' is the Gulf Stream.... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - American literature - 1908 - 348 pages
...lecture delivered in 1882, and thereafter in various places, and called his greatest platform discourse.] "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. It is the Gulf Stream. There... | |
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - Quotations - 1881 - 472 pages
...thought. A sioHQimo is the concrete incarnation of the mystery of evil. Prof. Llewellyn J. Evans. TM Kit K is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth i&the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters.... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1910 - 516 pages
...Vance.' Obsenrer Printing and Publishing Houte, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1897. SAYS Professor Maury : "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... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris - American literature - 1910 - 532 pages
...Publishing House. Charlotte, North Carolina, 1897. SAYS Professor Maury : "There is a river in the ocean. Li the severest droughts it never 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... | |
 | F. W. Henkel - Meteorology - 1911 - 370 pages
...The words of Maury ("Physical Geography of the Sea") may fittingly serve as an introduction : — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...overflows. Its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, whilst its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...globe in the way he has done. With what a grand simplicity the first chapter of the book commences : " 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... | |
 | Frances Squire Potter - Spellers - 1913 - 200 pages
...capital. Lord Byron Waters on a starry night LESSON 337 Read the following selection: 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... | |
 | 1884 - 624 pages
...four hundred times as much as all the air of the other." Then again in reference to the Gulf Stream he says : "There is a river in the ocean ; in the severest droughts it never fails ; in the mightiest floods it never overflows ; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Debates and debating - 1918 - 256 pages
...false, ring in the true. 7. Read in medium pitch : There is a river in the ocean. In the severest drouth 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... | |
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