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PHENOMENA OF THE OCEAN- 
They that go down to the sea in ships, that ' 
in great waters ; these see the works of the 
hts wonders in the deep. — Psalms. 
With wonder mark the moving wilderness ofv''®^V 
From pole to pole through boundless space difl"* 
MagHificcntly dreadful I where, at large, 
Leviathan, with each inferior name 
Of sea-born kfnds, ten tliousand thousand liibc*i 
Find endless range for pasture and for sport. 
Adoring own 
The Hand Almighty, who in channelled bod 
Immeasurable sunk, and poured abroad. 
Fenced with eternal mounds, the fluid sphere ; 
With every wind to waft large comnieree on. 
Join pole to pole, consociatc severed worlds, 
And link in bonds of intercourse and love 
Earth's universal family. ^ 
That huge mass of waters Impregnated with 
encompasses all parts of the globe, and by 
of which, in the present improved state of ’I'.fnoK 
an easy intercourse subsists between the most ^ 
is denominated the Ocean, and has n pP, 
tipns. 
divisions assigned to it. Finst : That vast expao®^ 
which lies to the westward of the northern 
divided from Asia. On account of the unifo*'*’’.„^oii;S| / 
continents of America, and by which those^con 
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perate gales which sweep its surface within the 
named “the Pacific Ocean j'’ and has again j])t 3 
gu.shed into the Nortiiern and Southern 
being considered as the boundary of each> 
Southern Ocean,” or Soutli Sea, being, V 
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that part oT the general assemblage of waters t 
the direction from about tlje fortieth 
towards the south pole. Its. general width 
about ten thousand miles. Secondly: 
Ocean," which divides Europe and Africa . pt .. ^ 
American continents, and has a general 
three thousand miles ; while the waters "'*’'‘'^3." 3 
polar regions are named “ The Nortlicrn 
lastly: “ The Indian Ocean,” which 
