The Portland daily press., 1897-11-27
THE SOURCE OF THE GULF
STREAM
To the Editor Of the Press:

To the Editor of the Press:
| tut many years there has been more OF
less speculation in regard to the cause of
the Gulf Stream, one naval officer writing
from the Mediterranean has advanced the
IDEA that There must be subterranean
passage under the Atlantic ocean from
the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Mexico
as the waters Of the two seas are of the
same temperature, and the flow of water
through the channel under the Atlantic
into the dulf of Mexico causing an over.
now. hence the cause of the Gulf Stream
through the Strait of Florida.
Another wise man has come I'm nv the
name OF Dr. Linden Kohl. never heard
OF this wise man before. He SAYS by late
Investigations he has found that the
source Oh the Gulf Stream is not through
the FLORIDA channel but by the side of the
west India islands and Binioni, where
the water flow is sixty times as great as
all the rivers in the world at their
mouths. Wonder where DR.. Kohl found
the island of Binioni. have made one
hundred and forty direct passages be-
tween the United States and West Indies,
but never heard of Binioni before. The
Gulf or Strait of Florida is forty miles
wide In the narrowest place with the coast
OF florlda on one side and the Bahama
| BANKS on the other side. In general I
nave found three knot current or
| seVenty-dve miles sea day of twenty.
Tour hours, which is great help to YES
sels working out through the Gulf into
the Atlantic. After the Gulf water flows
lnto the Atlantic the current is less as
the waters spreads out, but we get more
or less current till we pass Cape Hatteras.
| Inc Caribbean sea Is twelve hundred
miles from east to west, and in the
western part it is more than six hundred
miles wide. The easterly trade winds
blow continually down this long sea fore
ing the waters to the west and out into
the bay of Mexico. Speaking of the trade
wind l have come out of the Mediter-
ranean and before I got down to the
Madeira islands, have taken the easterly
trade wind from the coast of africa, that
lasted all the way down across the At
iantlo to the tropics, in the Caribbean sea,
| causing strong current that flows into
the Gulf of Mexico, and there are various
rivers that empty into this sea and bay,
and there is more than five feet of water
| that falls from the clouds each year INTO
| the Caribbean sea, and the only outlet to
this large flow of water is through the
bay of Mexico, and out of the Florida
channel into the q tlantio ocean. This
DR.. Linden Kohl says there is gulf
stream somewhere about the West Indies,
but the place he names no other person
ever heard Of. He still says the flow of
water is sixty times larger than all the
rivers of the world at their mouth but the
flow is not through the Florida channel.
Does this man have any idea of the great
flow of water from all the rivers of the
globel Does he comprehend the waters
that flow from the rivers Amazon,
Orinoco, Plata, Mississippi, Nile, Ganges
Hoogly, Thames, st. Lawrence, Hudson,
Danube, Volga and many others. might
mention. have been sailing along over
the Gulf Stream through the Florida
channel for half century and think 1
understand those waters as well as I do
my own door yard. ALVIN HALL.