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tween tliem ; but put them together, set them to work, point out 

 the offices of each spring, wheel, and cog, explain their movements, 

 and then show him the result ; now he perceives that it is all one 

 design ; that, notwithstanding the number of parts, their diverse 

 forms and various offices, and the agents concerned, the whole piece 

 is of one thought, the expression of one idea. He now rightly con- 

 cludes that when the main-spring was fashioned and tempered, its 

 relation to all the other parts must have been considered ; that the 

 cogs on this wheel are cut and regulated — adapted — to the ratchets 

 on that, &c. ; and his ffiial conclusion ^ill be, that such a piece of 

 mechanism could not have been produced by chance ; for the adap- 

 tation of the parts is such as to show it to be according to design, 

 and obedient to the will of one intelligence. So, too, when one 

 looks out upon the face of this beautiful v\^orld, he may admu^e its 

 lovely scenery, but his admiration can never grov/ into adoration 

 unless he will take the trouble to look behmd and study, in some of 

 its details at least, the exquisite system of machinery by which such 

 beautiful results are brought about. To him who does this, the 

 sea, with its physical geogTaphy, becomes as the main-spnng of a 

 watch ; its waters, and its currents, and its salt, and its inhabitants, 

 with their adaptations, as balance-wheels, cogs, and pinions, and 

 jewels in the terrestrial mechanism. Thus he perceives that they 

 too are accordmg to design — parts of the physical machinery 

 that are the expression of One Thought, — a unity, with harmonies 

 which One Intelligence, and One Intelligence alone, could utter. 

 And when he has arrived at this point, then he feels that the study 

 of the sea, in its physical aspects, is truly subhme. It elevates the 

 mind and ennobles the man ; for " His gentleness makes " it gTcat. 

 The Gulf Stream is now no longer, therefore, to be regarded by 

 such a one merely as an immense cmTent of warm water running 

 across the ocean, but as a balance-wiieel — a part of that grand 

 machinery by v/hich air and water are adapted to each other, and by 

 vrhich this earth itself is adapted to the weU-bemg of its inhabitants 

 — of the flora which deck, and the fauna which enliven its surface. 

 168. Let us now consider the Influence of the Gulf Stream 

 Meteorology of upon the Meteovology of the Ocecm. To use a sailor's 

 ifreamthewe^amer- cxpressiou, the GuK' Stream is the great "weather- 

 -?hf';^eSt™ril breeder" of the North Atlantic Ocean. _ The most 

 cane of Hso. furious gales of mnd sweep along with it ; and the 



fogs of Newfoundland, which so much endanger navigation in 

 spring and summer, doubtless owe their existence to the presence, 



