The Physical Geography of the SeaHarper & brothers, 1855 - 274 oldal |
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abstract log Africa agents Atlantic Ocean atmosphere atmospherical circulation basin blow bottom calm belt Cancer Cape Cape Horn Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea circulation climates cloud-ring clouds coast cold water cool course cross Dead Sea depth direction diurnal rotation earth east equator equatorial calms equilibrium evaporation extra-tropical regions fathoms feet flow force fresh water gales Grand Banks Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream heat hundred icebergs Indian Ocean Islands isotherm lakes land latitude longitude marine Mediterranean miles Mississippi moisture monsoons motion navigators northeast northern hemisphere observations Pacific parallel Plate VIII polar pole precipitation prevailing rain Red Sea rivers sailing salt sea water season ship shores side solid matter southeast trade-winds southeast trades southern southwest specific gravity Straits supply supposed surface current temperature thermometer thousand tion trade-wind region tropical upper current velocity vessels warm water whale winds and currents winter zone
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174. oldal - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
174. oldal - God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder; Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
174. oldal - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
75. oldal - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
197. oldal - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
25. oldal - 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.
174. oldal - Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, "We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
67. oldal - It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight of evening and of dawn ; it disperses and refracts their various tints to beautify the approach and retreat of the orb of day.
287. oldal - I had been traversing the ocean blindfolded. I did not think; I did not know the amazing and beautiful combination of all the works of Him whom you so beautifully term