142 Scientific Intelligence. 
North Atlantic, of which the Trade Wind constitutes the primum : 
mobile: a large part of its flow returns directly backward into — 
The view which Dr. nrncerest phi that the movement of — 
the ocean affects the whole body of dei to its very bottom, is 
recognized by the writer in his Report on Crustacea of the Wilkes 7 
Exploring Expedition, (4to, -1618 pp., 1852, this Journ., Il, xv, 7 
sere and the general system in this circulation is there pointed i 3 
—this system according with the views previously held by the — 
Getic meteorologist, W. C. Redfield. The conclusions are 7 
sustained by facts relating to the temperature of the ocean ob | 
served in the course of the cruise of the of i 
mentioned, and others from various sae presented on an isother- 
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and south movement, advoonted ay fs nd ter” the revolution 
secondly, whenever, in the flow of sa ee they approach the 
continents, where the de epth diminishes, the rate of flow will be F- 
Seana in abetted (approximately) to the decrease % depth; . = 
mes the stream east not only of Nort rica and q 
and of Australia; and also that in the higher lat: 
nose west ‘of South America. ae Gulf — and all these 
is an Indian ocean current the origin of ¢ t in the South 
Atlantic up the west side of Africa, though contributing to It 
r. Carpenter also combats Mr. 8 n, with regard @ 
the “thermal work of the Gulf Stream.” J. D. D. 
2. On the“ Benches,” or Valley Terraces, of British Cote 
by Marr. B. Beecstz, Chief Justice of British Columbia,— 
lowing extracts from this paper are selected from the Proce 
of the Roy. Geogr. Soc. for Feb. 27, 1871.—It is perhaps scart 
possible for any person who has never seen Fraser River, or ob 
