The Physical Geography of the SeaHarper & Brothers, 1856 - 348 páginas |
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abstract log Africa agents Arctic Arctic Ocean ascend Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere atmospherical circulation blow bottom breezes calm belt Cape Cape Horn Caribbean Sea Charts climate cloud-ring clouds coast cool coral course cross depth diurnal rotation earth east equator equatorial calms equilibrium evaporation extra-tropical regions fathoms feet flow force fresh water gales Gulf Stream heat horse latitudes hundred icebergs Indian Ocean infusoria Islands isotherm land-breeze latitude magnetism marine Mediterranean miles Mississippi moisture motion navigators northeast northern hemisphere observations oceanic circulation Pacific parallel Physical Geography Plate Polar basin pole precipitation rain Red Sea rivers salt sea water sea-breeze season ship shores side solid matter southeast trade-winds southeast trades southern southwest monsoons specific gravity Straits supply supposed surface current system of oceanic temperature thermometer tion trade-wind regions tropics upper current vessels warm water whale whence Wind and Current zone
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Página 133 - To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Página 51 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Página xiv - 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 Arctic Seas.. It is the Gulf Stream.
Página 147 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 50 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Página 35 - The inhabitants of the ocean are as much the creatures of climate as are those of the dry land; for the same Almighty hand which decked the lily and cares for the sparrow, fashioned also the pearl and feeds the great whale, and adapted each to the physical conditions by which His providence has surrounded it.
Página 35 - The sea, therefore, we may safely infer, has its offices and duties to perform ; so may we infer, have its currents, and so, too, its inhabitants ; consequently, he who undertakes to study its phenomena must cease to regard it as a waste of waters. He must look upon it as a part of...
Página xviii - When the companions of Columbus saw it, they thought it marked the limits of navigation, and became alarmed. To the eye, at a little distance, it seems substantial enough to walk upon.
Página xiv - There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far out from the Gulf as the Carolina coasts, are of an indigo blue. They are so distinctly marked that their line of junction with the common sea-water may be traced by the eye.
Página xi - I had been traversing the ocean blindfolded. I did not think; I did not know the amazing and beautiful combination of all the works of Him whom you so beautifully term