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ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS. 

 BOOK I. 



PRELIMINARY. 



CHAPTER I. 



That the Winds were first regarded as the most obvious 

 Cause of the Currents of the Ocean; then the 

 Action of the Sun's Kays ; but the Tidal Movements 

 of the Ocean, clearly related to the apparent move- 

 ments of the Sun and Moon, and the Displacement 

 OF the Ocean from the Poles towards the Equator 

 BY the Earth's Rotation, make it expedient to 

 consider the effects of Cosmical Laws before those 

 resulting from comparatively Local Causes . . 



What we know of the Earth's Motion , . , . 



I BOOK II. 



|W| EFFECTS OF THE MOTION OF THE EARTH. 



THEORY OF OCEAN CURRENTS, 



CHAPTER II. 



Effects of the Earth's Axial Rotation. 



Part I.— General Effects 17 



Part II, — Eflects in an orean coveiiug the Earth . . 24. 



