OR, PLAIN TEACHING. 



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joys clear sea, with no interrup- 

 tions of land, is the offing, 11. A 



hay -like form. The Q-ulf of Mex- 

 ico is one of the largest. From 



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small inlet, capable of being some- 

 times used as a place of shelter, 

 but generalij dangerous in tem- 

 pestuous weather, when the wind 

 blows towards the shore, is a 

 cove, 12. The Cove of Cork, which 

 changed its name to Queenstown 

 upon the visit of Queen Victoria, 

 is 'the finest on the British coasts. 



this great gulf issues that power- 

 ful ocean current the gulf stream, 

 one of the divisions of which finds 

 its way to the frozen North, and 

 there undermines large fields of 

 ice, which afterwards, moving to- 

 wards warmer latitudes, consti- 

 tute the icebergs met with in the 

 Atlantic ocean. Seas, 155,arelarge 



A bight is a small bay forming 

 a bend between two points of 

 land. A gulf, 12a, occupies a 

 greater recess in the land than a 

 bag, 10. A gulf and a bag differ 

 only in extent ; we apply bay to 

 a large or small recess of the sea, 

 but gulf only to a larger extent of 

 water, intersecting the land in a 



areas of water nearly enclosed by 

 land, as the Mediterranean Sea, tLo 

 Blade Sea, and the Baltic Sea,&vA 

 generally contain within them all 

 the distinguishing characteristics 

 of the greater ocean and its coast 

 lines. Thus, there are in the 

 Mediterranean Sea islands, bays, 

 gulfs, straits, etc. Roads, 13, are 



