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" Increasing its latitude 10°, it loses but 2° of temperature ; and, after having run three thousand miles toward the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer. With this temperature, it crosses the 40th degree of north latitude, and... "
Manual of modern geography, mathematical, physical, and political - Page 21
by Alexander Mackay - 1861 - 676 pages
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The Farmer's Almanac and Calendar

Cuthbert William Johnson, William Shaw - Agriculture - 1866 - 838 pages
...miles towards the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer. With this temperature it crosses the 40th degree of north latitude, and...banks, it spreads itself out for thousands of square miles over the «old waters around, and covers the ocean with a mantle of warmth that serve« much...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea

Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 312 pages
...miles toward the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer. With this temperature, it crosses the 40th degree of north latitude, and there, overflowing its licjiid banks, it spreads itself out for thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around, and...
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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued ..., Volume 4

Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...temperature it crosses the fortieth degree of north latitude, and there overflowing its liquid banks, spreads itself out, for thousands of square leagues, over the cold waters around, covering the ocean with a mantle of warmth, to mitigate the climate of our high northern latitude....
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 43

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...thousand miles northward, it still preserves, even in winter, summer heat. Crossing with this temperature the 40th degree of north latitude, and there overflowing its liquid banks, it spreads itself out far and wide — for thousands of square leagues, covering the ocean with a warm carpet which mitigates...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology

Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1860 - 542 pages
...miles toward the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer. With this temperature, it crosses the 40th degree of north latitude, and...thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around, covering the ocean with a mantle of warmth that serves so much to mitigate in Europe the rigors of...
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The reason why: physical geography and geology, by the author of 'The reason ...

Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 392 pages
...miles towards the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer. With this temperature it crosses the 40th degree of north latitude, and there, overflowing its liquid banks, spreads itself out for thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around, and covers the ocean...
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Elements of modern geography

Alexander Mackay - Geography - 1864 - 334 pages
...direction till it arrives at the 40th degree of N. latitude, and then overflowing its liquid banks, spreads itself out for thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around—thus greatly mitigating the rigours of winter in Western Europe, and especially in the British...
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The advanced lesson book, by E.T. Stevens and C. Hole

Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...miles towards the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer. With this temperature it crosses the 40th degree of North latitude, and...thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around, covering the ocean with a mantle of warmth that serves so much to mitigate in Europe the rigours of...
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The Cottage Cyclopedia of History and Biography: A Copious Dictionary of ...

Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...temperature it crosses the fortieth degree of north latitude, and there overflowing its liquid banks, spreads itself out, for thousands of square leagues, over the cold waters around, covering tie ocean with a mantle of warmth. Moving now moré slowly, but dispensing its genial influence...
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My Adventures Afloat: A Personal Memoir of My Cruises and Services ..., Volume 1

Raphael Semmes - Alabama (Confederate cruiser) - 1869 - 862 pages
...miles toward the north, it still preserves, even in winter, the heat of summer." With this temperature it crosses the 40th degree of North latitude, and there, overflowing its liquid'banks, it spreads itself out for thousands of square leagues over the cold waters around, and...
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