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THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. 



[CHAP. vin. 



the remarkable conditions of climate on the coasts 

 of Northern Europe are due in a broad sense solely 

 to the Gulf-stream. That is to say, that although 

 movements, some of them possibly of considerable 

 importance, must be produced by differences of spe- 

 cific gravity, yet the influence of the great current 

 which we call the Gulf-stream, the reflux of the 

 great equatorial current, is so paramount as to reduce 

 all other causes to utter insignificance. 



THE GIANT AND THE MAO. 



