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THE DEPTHS OF THE SEJ. 



[chap. viu. 



the remarkal)le conditions of climate on the coasts 

 of Northern Europe are due in a broad sense solely 

 to the Gulf-stream. That is to say, tliat although 

 movements, some of them possibly of considerable 

 importance, must be j^roduced by differences of sjie- 

 cific gravity, yet tlie influence of the great current 

 whicli Ave call the Gulf-stream, the reflux of the 

 great equatorial current, is so paramount as to reduce 

 all other causes to utter insignificance. 



THE GIANT AND THE HAU. 



