Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole].

  • Cole, William, active 1807.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o/ the sun towards the meridian, produce a diurnal swell in the ocean that causes the tides. But let him tell his own tale. In the explanation of the plates [Page xxxviih Vol. I.] he says, “ Let us now consider the course “ of the polar effusions produced by the action <c of the sun on the ices of the poles. There issues “everyyear a general current from that which ** is heated by the sun : and as that great Itmii- €( nary visits them alternately, it follows that there <c must be two general opposite currents which u communicate to the seas their movement of cir- “ dilation, and which are known in India by the c‘ name of the easterly and westerly monsoons, or <e winter and summer. “ This beinir laid down, let us examine the ef- “fusions of the south pole, which is there repre- “ sented in its summer. The general current which <£ issues from it divides into two branches, the one “ of which sets in toward the Alantic ocean, and “ penetrates even to its northern extremity. When “ this branch comes to force its way between the <c prominent part of Africa and America, finding “ itself straightened, on passing from a wider to a ** narrower space, it forms on the coast two coun-