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ship HLfto tT? prods ? Iy that indicated by Dr - Ma ”y- If the 
*7® would have ^ * *“*’ *“ ^ ° f 
It is believed, howeve^that ? Paaflc are rei T imperfectly known, 
length, and bifurcate J raverse the Great Ocean in its whole 
branch bends T *** "** ^ the -akest 
Behring’s Straits twtrT 1 _ eilcounters the polar current from 
branch inclines towards" tlTth° nS *?“ Mexican coast The ^rger 
» met by one or ml T ’ l - *"* roBnd Australia, where it 
Ocean 0 f the complicated"^^ 61118 C ° ming ^ lLe Indian 
and La Peyrouse speak. ***8°™* mrtnre of which both Cook 
towards the 
issirst s::zl Sr H »- - 
ameliorating the rainless climate as ill ? *° the E T™tor, 
A second great current takes the direct! I “ akln S delightful. 
“ dlTlded at the Cape, ascending botl in ° Aft ' lcan coast, and 
Africa. On either side of the warm cn it T* West coasts of 
intertropical parts of the Indian Ocean I t ° SCapos from the 
lla » coast, a polar current ZC ^^ongthe Austra- 
carrying supplies of cold water to moS ST , regions, 
equilibrium in that part olt^oZ Vt i “ the’ 
towards the west, then towards the south m H, ^ T”® 4 tur “ S at first 
more to the south still it is driven back bv ti ' “'f* 1011 ° f Mada gnscar ; 
Hor m It is thus that the ' k bj t lC polar cur rent from Cape 
*—* * tte f i7 f“ ^ rf 
Australia, one lateral branch of tl ’ *" lLulate pc:twcen Africa and 
coast of this vast continent. * C, “ Be “ 4 8wee Pmg along the south 
The monsoons which reign in the Tr, 7 i- r> 
««y the waters of ™* ” hioh “PPM to 
