Gulf Stream
The stream which issues from the Gulf of Mexico, and extends
over a range of 3,000 miles, raising the temperature of the water
through which it passes, and of the lands against which it flows. It
washes the shores of the British Isles, and runs up the coast of
Norway.
“It is found that the amount of heat transferred by the Gulf Stream
from equatorial regions into the North Atlantic ... amounts to no less
than one-fifth part of the entire heat possessed by the North
Atlantic.” —T. Croll: Climate and Time, chap. i. p. 15.
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