Note 12 — Chapter II · OCEANS-CURRENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEAT OVER THE GLOBE.
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The Gulf-stream at the narrowest place examined by the Coast Survey, and where also its velocity was greatest, was found to be over 30 statute miles broad and 1,950 feet deep. But we must not suppose that this represents all the warm water which is received by the Atlantic from the equator; a great mass flows into the Atlantic without passing through the Straits of Florida.