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" There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the... "
Selections from Various Sources - Page 84
by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 240 pages
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 105

1857 - 610 pages
...CV. NO. CCXIV. BB ' There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf-stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 18; Volume 40

1858 - 690 pages
...the book commences : " There is a river in the ocean. Jn the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 41

1857 - 602 pages
...use his own words: "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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De Bow's Review, Volume 19

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, Robert Gibbes Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1855 - 780 pages
...describes the Gulf stream: "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic seas. It is the Gulf stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea

Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1855 - 302 pages
...runs up hill, 57. 1. THERE is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress ..., Volume 2

1855 - 778 pages
...describes the Gulf stream: "There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic seas. It is the Gulf stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45

1855 - 804 pages
...ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Ita banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...speaks thus : — " There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico ¡9 its fountain, and its mouth ¡3 in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea

Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1856 - 636 pages
...droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The...Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current...
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Chambers's information for the people, ed. by W. and R ..., Volume 1; Volume 10

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pages
...Physical Geography of the Sea, 'a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks...are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Qulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the arctic seas. There is in the world no such...
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