. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Chief submarine banks. 620 Miles. the centre of this nearly circular sea the waters seem to be in a state of equili- brium, while at the periphery they move parallel with, but at some distance from, the surrounding coasts. South of the Mississippi delta the turbid fluid of the great river is impelled in a straight line eastwards by the blue waters of the Gulf Stream. Thus a junction is effected of the two branches about the southern entrance of Florida Strait, through which the whole mass disembogues like a mighty river in the broad Atlantic. At the narrowe
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Chief submarine banks. 620 Miles. the centre of this nearly circular sea the waters seem to be in a state of equili- brium, while at the periphery they move parallel with, but at some distance from, the surrounding coasts. South of the Mississippi delta the turbid fluid of the great river is impelled in a straight line eastwards by the blue waters of the Gulf Stream. Thus a junction is effected of the two branches about the southern entrance of Florida Strait, through which the whole mass disembogues like a mighty river in the broad Atlantic. At the narrowest part, between Jupiter Inlet on the Florida side and Memory Rock in the Bahamas, the stream is con- tracted to a width of 56 miles, with an extreme depth of 450 fathoms. In this contracted channel the velocity varies from 2 to 6 miles, the average being about 3, and the discharge, according to Bartlett, 175 billions of cubic feet per second, or 15,260 trillions per day.
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