Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Newfoundland, and even beyond the latitude of Cape Cod ami Xan-tucket Shoals. Smithsoniai ru Plate 1. liii V . •^ ?r lib. ?;.^;;^ li liii ill- ; < lliiF: V V. FiQ. Gulf Stream. THE GULF 8TKEAM. 201 Tilt; earlier work of the Coast Survey in its investigations into tliestructure of the Gulf Stream (1845 to 18G0) consisted in making- sec-tions across the stream, from the Straits of Bemini as far north as thelatitude of Nantucket. From the studies of Craven, MafRtt, Bache,and 1 )avis were developed the so-called cold
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Newfoundland, and even beyond the latitude of Cape Cod ami Xan-tucket Shoals. Smithsoniai ru Plate 1. liii V . •^ ?r lib. ?;.^;;^ li liii ill- ; < lliiF: V V. FiQ. Gulf Stream. THE GULF 8TKEAM. 201 Tilt; earlier work of the Coast Survey in its investigations into tliestructure of the Gulf Stream (1845 to 18G0) consisted in making- sec-tions across the stream, from the Straits of Bemini as far north as thelatitude of Nantucket. From the studies of Craven, MafRtt, Bache,and 1 )avis were developed the so-called cold and warm bands, believed atthat time to be the principal characteristic of the Gulf Stream. Theaccompanying- map {Fig. i>), published in 1800 by the Coast Survey,will serve to illustrate the structure of the Gulf Stream as it was thenunderstood; namely, as a succession of belts composed of warm north-erly currents llowiiig side by side with a cold southerly current, or ofa cold southerly current which had found its way under the warmernortherly currents. These alternating belts had no definite position,the size of the colder bands and warnier belts being dependent, the oneu])on the force of the arctic current, the other u
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