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An essay on currents at sea; by which it appears, there is reason to apprehend, that the sea is not a fluid in a state of rest, except those motions which are cased by the impulse of winds, and that known by the name of tides : and consequently, that this earth is not of a uniform density, according to the supposition of Sir Isaac Newton; but that the currents of the Gulf of Florida, also on the coast of Brasil, and the northern in-draught on this western coast, are currents of circulation, kept up by different densities in this earth, and its motion round iys axis — Illustration, BHL page 65666950
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An essay on currents at sea; by which it appears, there is reason to apprehend, that the sea is not a fluid in a state of rest, except those motions which are cased by the impulse of winds, and that known by the name of tides : and consequently, that this earth is not of a uniform density, according to the supposition of Sir Isaac Newton; but that the currents of the Gulf of Florida, also on the coast of Brasil, and the northern in-draught on this western coast, are currents of circulation, kept up by different densities in this earth, and its motion round iys axis — Illustration, BHL page 65666950

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