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the Gulf Stream. He believed also that a current existed 
in the Pacific Ocean, near the western coast of North 
America, by which a warm stream was carried from the 
tropics to higher latitudes, thus raising the annual tem- 
perature of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte’s Islands, and 
the neighbouring coasts. 
Mr. Hopkins, in reply, remarked that the existence of 
the latter oceanic current had not been established by any 
satisfactory proofs. 
