JAPANESE STREAM. 



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eastward course along the Chinese Sea, washes the 

 eastern coasts of the Japanese Islands, and then 

 spreads its warm waters before the north-east 

 winds over the northern part of the great ocean. 

 Thus the Japanese current plays, in the Pacific, the 

 part of the gulf-stream in the Atlantic, and it 

 exerts an influence on the climate of the west coast 

 of the opposite continent like to, but, on account 

 of the less favourable conditions,* not so powerful 

 as, that wrought by the gulf-stream on Europe. 

 The following comparison shows the advantage 

 which the west coast has over the east of North 

 America, as well that of the west coast of Europe 

 over both : 



Place. 



Latitude. 



Degrees of Mean Temperature. 



Of Winter. 



Of Summer. 



Of the Year. 



Deg. | Min. 



Cent. 



Fahr. 



Cent. 



Fahr. 



Cent. 



Fahr. 



Sitkha ") 

 (Russian I 

 America) J 

 N a i n 1 

 (Coast of \. 

 Labrador) J 

 Aberdeen 



57 „ 3 



57 „ 10 



57 „ 9 



+ 0-7 



— 18-5 

 + 39 



3226 



+ 0-5 

 2902 



127 



7-8 

 15-3 



5486 



4604 

 5954 



7-4 



— 3-6 

 96 



45-32 



27-68 

 4928 



* The Japanese current runs with far less strength than 

 the gulf-stream, and its temperature is of course lower, as 

 it is derived only from the northern limb of the equatorial 

 current. 



