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... The Physical Geography of the Sea - Page 1by Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1859 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1857 - 610 pages
...cannot blame the priority thus given to its history. To use his own words : โ VOL. CV. NO. CCXIV. BB ' 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... | |
| Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...what a grand simplicity the first chapter of the book commences : " There is a river in the ocean. Jn 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... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...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... | |
| Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...this is ably done in eighteen chapters, each of intense interest. He thus describes 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... | |
| University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...was published in 1852. It opens with a chapter on the Gulf Stream, of which he speaks thus : โ " 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 ยก9 its fountain, and its... | |
| Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...was published in 1852. It opens with a chapter on the Gulf Stream, of which he speaks thus : โ " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts...fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Ita banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1856 - 500 pages
...The Gulf Stream," and the first chapter opens with a striking description of that remarkable current. "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 1856.] The Gulf Stream. 13 warm. The Gulf of Mexico... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pages
...currents is the Qulf Stream. ' There is,' says Lieutenant Maury, in his Physical Geography of the Sea, '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 Qulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its... | |
| Baptists - 1856 - 496 pages
...for other obvious reasons, we insert a few paragraphs with which the volume opens. " There is a rivet in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails,...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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