September 9, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Note.— Since the foregoing article was 

 sent for publication, an important element 

 is found to have been overlooked. This is 

 the effect upon the coast current of the 

 powerful westward thrust of globe-rota- 

 tion, corresponding to that which causes 

 the ti'ade-winds and the equatorial cur- 

 rents. This thrust must begin to act with 

 great power as soon as the coast current 

 begins to move to the southward. Such 

 thrust must absolutely forbid that great 

 current to cling as it does to the coast from 

 Alaska to southern California, unless some 

 other force intervenes. This fact, there- 

 fore, constitutes an absolute proof that the 

 source of the Pacific coast current is not 

 from the Kuro Siwo, because as soon as 

 that current should turn southward, it 

 must at once be pushed by the globe rota- 

 tion westward into the open ocean. 



But this element of force proves much 

 more. The fact that the coast current does 

 actually move eastward of south, clinging 

 to the eastward trend of the coast in oppo- 

 sition to the westward thrust to which it is 

 subjected, demonstrates the presence all 

 along its course of a very mighty source of 

 eastward pressure. That source can be no 

 other than the broad and massive current 

 from the Antarctic pushing up from the 

 deep sea under the easterly globe-thrust 

 along the entire coast from Alaska to Los 

 Angeles. As soon as that confining pres- 

 sure is removed, the coast current turns 

 westward, finally to unite with the equa- 

 torial current in the tropics. 



I seem, therefore, to have the right to 

 claim an absolute certainty for the theory 

 that a cold current from the deep sea im- 

 pinges against the American Pacific coast 

 from Alaska to southern California. The 

 vast body of cold water actually appearing 

 there can by no possibility have moved 

 from a northern source to the eastward of 

 south, such direction being forbidden by 

 the rotation of the globe. S. E. Bishop. 



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