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noco, and the Amazon all contribute to the waters of 

 the Gulf Stream. 



Such, in brief, is the nature and capacity of the Gulf 

 Stream — preeminently the most potent factor for the 

 progress of civilized man. Without its influence, the 

 greater part of cultured Europe would be a cold and 

 cheerless waste, uninhabited save by such rude races as 

 the Eskimos and Lapps. Over a large part of our own 

 salubrious land would descend long and dreary winters, 

 and desolation would prevail throughout what are at 

 present the fairest and loveliest portions of the earth. 



