Note 5 — Chapter I · VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO RIO DE JANEIRO.
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No one can read the account of the explorations undertaken by the Coast Survey in the Gulf Stream, and continued during a number of successive years, and the instructions received by the officers thus employed from the Superintendent, Dr. A. D. Bache, without feeling how comprehensive, keen, and persevering was the intellect which has long presided over this department of our public works. The result is a very thorough survey of the stream, especially along the coast of our own continent, with sections giving the temperature to a great depth, the relations of the cold and warm streaks, the form of the ocean bottom, as well as various other details respecting the direction and force of the current, the density and color of the water, and the animal and vegetable productions contained in it. (See Appendix No. I.)—L. A.