The Physical Geography of the SeaHarper & brothers, 1855 - 287페이지 |
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abstract log Africa agents Atlantic Ocean atmosphere atmospherical circulation basin blow bottom calm belt Cape Cape Horn Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea cause channels Charts climates cloud-ring clouds coast cold water cool course cross Dead Sea depth direction diurnal rotation drift earth east equator equatorial calms equilibrium 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 physical geography Plate VIII polar pole precipitation prevailing rain Red Sea rivers salt sea water season shores side southeast trade-winds southeast trades southern southwest specific gravity Straits supply supposed surface current temperature thermometer thousand tion trade-wind region tropical upper current vapor velocity vessels warm water whale winds and currents winter zone
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172 페이지 - 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.
172 페이지 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
80 페이지 - 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.
172 페이지 - 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.
195 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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.
172 페이지 - 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.
75 페이지 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.
66 페이지 - Softer than the softest down, more impalpable than the finest gossamer, it leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the lightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight.
67 페이지 - 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.