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- ocean, and the temperature of the ocean is twenty degrees higher than
that of the Grand Banks. And it is to this remarkable difference of
temperature, for which there can be no equilibrium, that many seamen
impute the fogs on the coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland; but why
there should always be such ugly weather in the Gulf, is something that
I do not know has ever been accounted for.
It is curious to dip one’s finger in a bucket full of the Gulf Stream,
and find it so warm; as if the Gulf of Mexico, from whence this current
comes, were a great caldron or boiler, on purpose to keep warm the
North Atlantic, which is traversed by it for a distance of two thousand
miles, as some large halls in winter are by hot air tubes. Its mean
breadth being about two hundred leagues, it comprises an area larger
than that of the whole Mediterranean, and may be deemed a sort of
Mississippi of hot water flowing through the ocean; off the coast of
Florida, running at the rate of one mile and a half an hour.
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