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by tlie continent of Asia, it has but one simple current, wbich turns 

 incessantly in its vast basin between Australia and Africa. As a 

 whole, these ocean rivers recall by their distribution the divisions of 

 the land. The two great whirlpools of the Atlantic correspond to 

 the two continents of Europe and Africa; the huge eddies of the 

 Pacific have a binary division analogous to the two continents of 

 America ; and the current of the Indian Ocean reminds one of 

 the enormous mass of Asia, which alone fills half the northern 

 hemisphere. 



