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mithe Atlantic, as a natural consequence of the narrowness and 
allowness of the only opening, Behring Straits, by which Polar 
ifi is paper “On 
= nd seas, excluded either by land ora shallow entrance from the 
Ux of the cold deep water of the ocean, must Increase 1n salt- 
sfavity must give rise to an in-flowing surface eurrent from the 
orean, the deep waters of the inland = remaining of high temper- 
Mure. This had been his explanation with regard to the Medit- 
ern end, is 
Pout over the shallow bar like a river at certain seasons, and an- 
