328 Prof. Bache’s Lecture on the Gulf Stream. 
Charleston to Cape Fear. 
VIL. General FEATURES OF THE GULF STREAM. 
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(Plate III,) the general features of the Gulf Stream are repre- 
sented from the Tortugas to the Cape Cod Section. Passing 
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West, as given by the Surgeon General's report. The cur 
rent here is feeble, but sufficient to cause it to be sought by 
sailing vessels making to windward and even by steamers. 48 
suing from the straits of Bemini, the stream is turned northward 
by the land which confines and directs its course. _Its effective 
velocity is not derived from difference of temperature, as the 
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little west of north and the velocity is from 8 to 5 miles per 
hour, The temperature bands now begin. The bottom of the 
north. Between St. Augustine and Cape Hatteras the Be 4 
the stream and the trend of the coast differ but little, making 5 
degrees of easting in 5 degrees of northing. At Hatteras 
curves to the northward and then runs easterly, making abou 
degrees of northing in 8 degrees of easting. In the latitude e 
Cape Charles it turns quite to the curred haying a velocity 
between one and one mile and a half the hour. 
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