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explorer, quoted with approval by the Edinburgh Ee- 

 viewer. The latter having repeated from 6 Lothair &quot; a 

 sneer at the shallow nonsense which has been talked 

 about the Gulf Stream, and at the exaggerated esti 

 mates of its potency which have been put forward by 

 men (as well as women) who ought to have known 

 better &quot; (these are the reviewer s words, not Mr. Dis 

 raeli s), proceeds as follows : As Dr. Hayes truly re 

 marks, &quot; Weather predictors without end have launched 

 upon it their stupidities ; meteorologists have deluged 

 the world (sic) with their assumptions respecting it ; 

 theorists of all kinds have floated their notions upon it. 

 One whirls it away into the arctic regions, and opens a 

 passage to the pole with it ; another compels it to give 

 a climate to countries where otherwise there would be 

 no climate worth mentioning ; while still another spins 

 it round the Atlantic Ocean, and its wide-spread arms 

 close upon a stagnant sea. . . . Through means 

 such as these mankind has come to look upon the Gulf 

 Stream with a certain degree of awe. It is a breeder 

 of storms ; the giver of heat ; it might become the 

 father of pestilence. Will it always continue to do its 

 duty as hitherto ? or will it start off suddenly with some 

 new fancy, and pursuing some new course, upset the 

 physical and moral status of the world ? &quot; 



Now we have seen that the writer who thus endorses 

 Dr. Hayes diatribe, is among those who hold that a 

 southern offset from the Gulf Stream circles round 

 the Sargasso Sea to join the Guinea current. He says 

 farther on that he 6 entirely accords with the opinion 



