Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-02

cessive oA the eastern side of the straits, and least on the western side. The average daily currents vary during the month, the strongest current coming day or two after the greatest declination of the moon.
 .sThe axis or true polnt of beginning of the Gulf stream determined by fixing the position of the strongest surface f1ow) is eleven and a half miles east of the Fowey Rocks lighthouse. The strongest surface current found here was five and a quarter knots per hour, the least one and three quarter knots, and the average three and six. .tenths knots. We used two meters in our observations, one for the surface cur rent and one for the sub-surface stream. The wind has no effect upon the velocity of the current. The surface current, it was noticed, has a much higher velocity than the sub-surface. During our observations we occupied twenty-six different stations, being anchored at each for several days at time. We took l, 557 current observations with the meter, and 1,s07 current observa- tions with the pole during this time."
 "And what deductions did you make9"
 seThese only: That neither the Mississip- pi river nor the trade winds were in any way responsible for the Gulf stream; that it was affected by the changes of the moon, and that this particular point, 11k miles east of Fowey Rocks lighthouse, was it's true axis or source."
 eWhat theories have you in reference to the first cause of the streamf"
 Hundreds. It is a great field for specu- Iation. Just imagine, if you can, what would have been the result if we could have donned submarine armor and dived to the bottom in 49S fathoms of water. We made soundings, but they revealed to us nothing. The bottom was sandy, coral foundation; fish and other submarine creatures lived and disported themselves in the depths, and all the time that surg ing, resistless current boiled about us, de- flying inquiry as to it's true origin.
 sslt might be, for aught any one could say to tho contrary, the mouth of Q great river, with the course deep down in the bowels of the earth, among those everlasting fires that
 scientists tell us are continually burning there. The superheated water gushing to the surface of the ocean at that depth with power that can not be estimated would be apt to displace the chilled and heavier
 water of the ocean, and, with an initial ve-
 locity of nearly six miles an hour, would
 certainly clear for itself a pathway through the ocean until chilled and rendered inert by the frozen waters of the Arctic seas. "Again, it may be that we were anchored over an immense and ever-active volcano which in no way crippled by the constant influx of the cold ocean water into it's yawn- ing crater continually, with a power that | human thought can not measure, hurls back
 the heated waves, and this repulsion, going l on day after day and year after year or 8 period of time that has not yet been fixed by observation or deduction, has increased | the volume of the at first puny geyser until now it has become fixed and well founded
 current, differing in temperature from the
 water that surrounds it, and with sweep ! and stretch that extend over thousands of l miles. You can theorize all day over the
 matter, and perhaps be as far from the l truth as ever. The observations made by 1 the Blake settled several disputed points: s'1. That the winds and the Mississippi river have nothing to do with the formation | of the Gulf stream.
 1 ''2. That point eleven and a half miles
 east of Fowey Rocks lighthouse, Florida,
 in the Caribbean Sea, is it's true axis or ! source.
 s'3. That the velocity of the current is
 controlled by the declination of the moon."