"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. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream."

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Source : Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.25

Matthew Fontaine Maury

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