 Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will be found crowding together near the centre of the pool, where there is the least motion. Just such...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 3981844Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...remained to this day : and certain observations as to ils limits, extending back for fifty years, assure us that its position has not been altered since... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light sub.stanc.-s will be found crowding together near the centre of...remained to this day : and certain observations as to its limita, extending back for fifty years, assure us that its position has not been altered since that... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1856 - 636 pages
...if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...of discovery ; there it has remained to this day, moving up and down, and changing its position like the calms of Cancer, according to the seasons, the... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1858 - 656 pages
...Now, if bits of cork, or chaff, or any floating substance, be put in a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...Sargasso Sea is the centre of the whirl. Columbus found this weedy sea in his voyage of discovery, and there it has remained to this day." who were on... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will be found crowding together near the center of the pool where there is the least motion. Just such a basin is the Atlantic Ocean to the... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1859 - 428 pages
...if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...motion. Just such a basin is the Atlantic Ocean to the GulfStream ; and the Sargasso Sea is the centre of the whirl. Columbus first found this weedy sea in... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1860 - 542 pages
...if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...of discovery ; there it has remained to this day, moving up and down, and changing its position, like the calms of Cancer, according to the seasons,... | |
 | William J. Barbee - 1861 - 432 pages
...bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and if a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...Sargasso Sea is the centre of the whirl. Columbus lirst found this weedy sea in his voyage of discovery, and its position has not been altered since... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances •will...of discovery : there it has remained to this day, moving up and down, and changing its position like the calms of Cancer. according to the seasons, the... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1863 - 452 pages
...if bits of cork, or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...voyage of discovery. There it has remained to this day, moving up and down, and changing its position, like the calms of Cancer, according to the seasons,... | |
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