 | John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pages
...have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf-Current, in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles." Other observations on this subject have been given on pages 221 to 223. The same influences... | |
 | John Purdy - 1853 - 614 pages
...passing beneath the Gulf Stream, could have carried the>e immense bodies to iheir observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf Current, in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles." Other observations on this subject have been given on pages 242 to 244. The same influences... | |
 | George William Blunt - Atlantic Ocean - 1868 - 58 pages
...passing beneath the Gulf stream, could have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf current in a region where...by HM packet Express, July 7, 1836, on the southern ease of the Sable Bank, about seventy-five miles southwest from the Sabîe Island. The highest of these,... | |
 | Admiralty hydrogr. dept - 1878 - 526 pages
...passing beneath the Gulf stream, could have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf current, in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles."* It may possibly assist to realise the enormous magnitude of these ice islands, by stating... | |
 | United States. Hydrographic Office - Pilot guides - 1884 - 634 pages
...passing beneath the Gulf stream, could have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf current, in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles." It may possibly assist to realize the enormous magnitnde of these ice islands, by stating... | |
 | Great Britain. Hydrographic Department - Pilot guides - 1885 - 278 pages
...passing beneath the Gulf stream, could have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf current, in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles."* It may possibly assist to realise the enormous magnitude of these ice islands by stating... | |
 | Richardson Clover - Navigation - 1891 - 330 pages
...passing beneath the Gulf Stream, could have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions on routes which cross the Gulf current in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles." In the latitude of St. Johns, Newfoundland, icebergs have been fallen in with as far east... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - Pilot guides - 1895 - 1126 pages
...42" 41' 4Q° TKE NEY/ YORK TST'ry.Tn TT vi J .- v ASTOH. Lf. JX » Tii.0. i roo.'-u'A". i 5* •'• cross the Gulf Current, in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles." Other observations on this subject have been given in the chapter on the Gulf Stream. To... | |
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No impulsion but that of a vast current, setting in a south-westerly direction, and passing beneath the Gulf stream, could have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf current, in a region where its average... 