Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology

Front Cover CHAPTER I CHAPTER II More observations in and about the Gulf Stream a Desideratum, 175 -Certain Its Colour, § 70 -How caused, 71 - Speculations concerning the Gulf Stream, 72 CHAPTER IV Crossing at the calm Belts, 263 - The counter Trades-they approach the Pole duction of Currents without Wind, 96 --Warm Currents flow towards the Pole, cold - How the Water of the Gulf Stream differs from the littoral CHAPTER V -Drift-wood on the Mississippi, 114 -Effect of diurnal Rotation but they occur on a north-east and south-west Range, 330 -Conditions requisite Limits of the Gulf Stream in March and September, 126 -Reluctance of Layers How the Washington Observatory is warmed, § 150 - An Analogy showing how CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII -The Origin of Currents, 406 -Currents of the Atlantic, 407 -The St Roque Likened to a Machine, § 200 - The Air and the Ocean governed by stable Laws, CHAPTER IX -The Importance of atmospherical Circulation, 230 -Its vertical Movements, -Insects of the Sea-their Abundance, 492 -Ditto, calcareous -Their Influences upon the Mind, 240 -The Effect of downward Currents in pro- Heat of the Sun upon the Trade-winds, 253 -- The two Systems of Trade-winds Agents required, 257 -Where found, 258 - Vapour as one of the Causes of Rivers considered as Rain-gauges-the ten largest, § 270 -Heat required to lift CHAPTER XI Cloud Region-highest in the calm Belts, § 501 -Fogless Regions, 502 -The CHAPTER VI The Alternations of Land and Sea Breezes, § 311 -The Sea Breeze at Valparaiso, THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV Earth changing? 646 -Temperature of the Trade-winds and calm Belts, 647 -The CHAPTER XVI Obedient to Order, § 370 -The Fauna and Flora of the Sea, 371 -Those of southern CHAPTER XVII Page Interesting physical Inquiries, § 420 - Voyages of Discovery to the North Pole, CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX Regions of the South, 838 -Their Extent; Plate XIV , 839 -A physical Law con- Repetition often necessary, § 811 - The S E and N E Trade-winds put in a Balance, CHAPTER X CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII Drift explained, 478 -Thickness of a Winter's Ice, 479 -Layers of Water