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ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



SSSSSF^JSE 



L " Whin Vr 00683 J "i 88 *"* and cooling of the surface of 

 ine ,,cean. When the rays of the sun nre operating in their greatest 



than others y Dg 8 me part8 , Would alm 9t necessarily cool faster 









it is observed that the who '' 



B 



to Cape Boiador /2fl" 7' \r lot \ H. . .om ape autin 



observed, amounts to 8 degrees; but to the south of these tlan/ s 



receives a arge accession of water from the westward by whS 



temperature is ra,sed at once several degrees. By some this^s be bV d 



' 



the mkrmedrate point, to the aoLth-east, til] it 



- 







t running to the 3 ,f V ^ Jf ^ e mam Ijod 7 ^ the 

 Great and the Outer Bank if wl^-p jV , pa8ses betWeen the 

 N. 1st. and 46" and 47'- w 1,"' Newfo n d lnd, or between 45 and 46' 



S DhereT s ^M** 6 ?, *? * hat the te ^Peture of the southern hemi- 

 sphere ls cons.derably lower than that of the northern, and that the 



from r^ r? UUt8 ^ ^ t0 ten degree8 f tho 80ale f Fam-enheft 

 om recent obsei-vatjons however it appears that the supposed difler- 



iSS of both hemispheres in 



nccoHii,,, t,, I,i u ,,t iu 



running the Gulf Htream, while the ntT 



ion along the coast as a ourr t " ', ?*" & south-westwarcUy 

 i.b,,,,rine lie breadth of the cTr^ent in h' J' \^ m 8t P art 

 excee.1 100 nr 210 miles, but itg ^ Derlt, r ^i P rubabl y does not 

 the ocean, sometimes aa much M iTor 17 T '" * below that of 

 be attributed to the i "b"ough"down bv itT^k ** " m ? M * to 

 Und and from the Strait of \SF&?SSSS*ffi' * <&? 

 Voyage in Baffin', Bay/ 1WO % ^ 88tWST5Slf I 



, hwu 1 er that the ioe ad "<=e8 much farther to the south 

 the Northern than to the north in the Southern Atlantic deserves 

 to be noticed more particularly. 



The region of ice which surrounds the North Pole has not been 

 attained, and therefore our information concerning it is extremelv 

 Bcanty. Till within the last quarter of a century Aas Lffito* 

 all the ice extending from the pole to a distance of about nine decree 

 formed one continuous, undivided, and immoveable mas. But if has 

 been ascertamed by recent arctic voyagers that this apparently u^mense 

 ce-field 18 divided during summer into a great number of 



