OCEAN CURRENTS. 



in forming the current in the Pacific on the eastern 

 coast of China. 



The sun bearing easterly causes the waters to im- 

 pinge against the continental outlines of the Americas. 

 Such waters as impinge against North America will 

 be deflected southerly, owing to continental outlines, 

 barring a small portion of reflex waters which make 

 off to the north. Waters that impinge against the 

 coast of Central America take a whirling movement, 

 owing to continental outlines. The whirling move- 

 ment continues until the waters are again taken up by 

 the general froce of the sun bearing easterly, aided by 

 the greater portion of the deflected waters moving 

 south through continental outlines aiding same. The 

 waters that impinge against the South American con- 

 tinent are deflected south, owing to continental out- 

 lines, and join in the general flow from the north. 



All these waters moving to the south are aided by 

 the cooling action of cold on the properties of water 

 as long as the limit of expansion has not been reached 

 in the w r aters. The cooling action being a tendency 

 to union of matter and in consequence the waters gain 

 speed in proportion to the tendency to union in the par- 

 ticles. When- the point of expansion has been reached 

 in the waters they again become deflected by impact 

 toward the northeast, to again become influenced by 

 the action of the sun in the given latitudes. Then 

 the waters continue eastward until by impact against 

 the continent of Africa, and its consequent outlines, the 

 waters are forced back toward Central America, to 



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