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of two ] Wlt !j a ! 3r f dth of thirt y- four miles, and a depth 
} ^lf miles per ho U r ’ j! le et moving at the rate of four and a 
about thirty degrees Cent Fro^T °*. the W&ter 111 tb ® V,cinit >' is 
a north-east di.v r t li * American coast the current takes 
ffimini,hr~ ‘ , S**-*-. ito velocity and volume 
latitude it L7 S ? ^ ToTOrd > h*ftM degree ot 
and of Norway whitl 7“’ ™ C , 01 ' rt ' cl * 8trlkes * le c “ sl of IntaM 
also warmi the f r ! seeds of tropical origin : 
ioolining Z* riT K «*•*** «*• *» other branch, 
of AIH« ulZl S r, ” f“ •» Ai » ra ' ™ b «» «*»t 
circuit may Tlf ad Z r f* ^ WaL »■«**<* ‘his vast 
Strays of every description W '““ft 7 d * ,fl " ootl . with waifs and 
way the Atlantic I, li ■ no on l he hosom of the ocean. “Mid- 
l’ies, and^lpTdeVe^n^f 11 ^ SP8 ' Ce between the Azores, Cana- 
•- are. «,nal in eaten, Sea, covering 
matted over with the Gulf W<wi rr „ a e > • 18 so thickly 
vessels passing through it is actually Xd^ tnd’to^th ^ ° f 
of Columbus it seemed to m-irk tl,V. r ; to the companions 
came alarmed. To the eye 7a Mo r ' ! *% be- 
substantial to walk npon ” Thee - ktlmc0 il seemed sufficiently 
ereen, which tail * *4 
carries the tepid water of the erf ' ,rT, 10 Atlantic system. It 
beyond the fortieth parallel theT* 1 ? gl0M into the high latitudes ; 
Urged by the ^ '*«***!' **»« Cent, 
tepid waters mix with those of +1 X predoramate 111 that zone, its 
of the climate ^ *» rigour 
Newfoundland, the warm, current in J £ * ° f tbe great bank of 
Florida Straits meets the enlrl . f , v ? lume rushing from the 
through Baffin’s Bay and the &T 0 f ^ endmgfrom tbe Arctic Circle 
velocity towards the south. A pfrtifn otZt 
be Bole along the western coalt 
Je polar and equatorial waters that the f l T ***' ° f 
Newfoundland is ascribed Each of H forra *t»n ° f the bank8 of 
ceasingly deposited the debris carried ffils^somXt 8 vT* 8 Un ' 
fbns formed hit by hit in the concourse of a g S ** ^ 
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