The international geography . by the trade winds, water ofequal warmth is rarely met with so deep as 300 fathoms. The mass ofwarm water banked up against the coast of Europe accounts for the excep-tional mildness of the south-westerly winds which prevail there. The south equatorial current is largely supplied from the cool Ben-^uela current which wells up from deep water off the south-west coastof Africa, and partly, it would appear, by currents drawn in from the. Fig. 40. — The Ctinrnts of the AtlantuOcean, shoiciiig the typical circulationof datcr in an ocean, and the relationof the Sargasso
The international geography . by the trade winds, water ofequal warmth is rarely met with so deep as 300 fathoms. The mass ofwarm water banked up against the coast of Europe accounts for the excep-tional mildness of the south-westerly winds which prevail there. The south equatorial current is largely supplied from the cool Ben-^uela current which wells up from deep water off the south-west coastof Africa, and partly, it would appear, by currents drawn in from the. Fig. 40. — The Ctinrnts of the AtlantuOcean, shoiciiig the typical circulationof datcr in an ocean, and the relationof the Sargasso Sea to the Gnlf 70 The International Geography Southern Ocean. It sweeps across to the coast of Brazil, where part turnsnorthward to reinforce the north equatorial current, and the rest flowssouthward along the coast of Brazil, turning gradually to the east as itcomes within reach of the westerly winds. Currents of the Pacific Ocean.—The circulation of the North Pacificis exactly like that of the North Atlantic but on a larger scale. The Kiiro-Sliiuv or Black Stream of Japan corresponding to the Gulf Stream, thedrift of its warm water gives rise to a strong climatic resemblance betweennorth-western Europe and north-western America, while the cold currentfrom Bering Sea helps to complete the analogy of the cold climate ofKamchatka with that of Labrador. In the South Pacific the Humboldtcurrent wliich flows northward along the west coast of Sou
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