406 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [CHAP, VIII. 
the remarkable conditions of climate on the coasts 
of Northern Europe are due in a broad sense solely 
to the Gulf-stream. That is to say, that although 
movements, some of them possibly of considerable 
importance, must be produced by differences of spe- 
cific gravity, yet the influence of the great current 
which we eall the Gulf-stream, the reflux of the 
ereat equatorial current, is so paramount as to reduce 
all other causes to utter insignificance. 
THE GIANT AND THE HAG. 
