The Mighty Deep 



Atlantic to the Indian, from the Indian to the 

 Pacific again. It has to despatch streams north- 

 ward into more distant regions, with messages of 

 goodwill to all. 



Is this somewhat imaginative ? Well, be it 

 so. The facts are scientifically true. Suggested 

 meanings, gathered therefrom, may be accepted 

 or rejected, according to the reader's pleasure. 



We see, at all events, that from the vast Drift- 

 Currents of the Ocean, born of the Winds, 

 spring the Grandchildren of the Winds, such 

 powerful rivers as the Gulf Stream and the 

 Black Stream ; they in their turn giving birth to 

 an infinite number of lesser currents, Great- 

 grandchildren of the Winds ; one and all taking 

 their share in a world-wide circulation of Ocean- 

 waters. 



The southern belt of westerly winds, with its 

 resulting westerly current, would be repeated in 

 the northern hemisphere, but for the presence 

 of great masses of land. Continents work havoc 

 with schemes of ocean circulation. 



That westerly winds do greatly prevail in cor- 

 responding latitudes to the north is a well-known 

 fact, though we cannot boast the possession of 

 anything like the " Roaring Forties." No broad 

 belts of unchanging air-currents can exist in the 



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