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gravity or weight than the sand. At
the same time it viii be heavier than
the water, lighter than the sands.
The cable will resist the pressure of
the southwark floating sands, stop
some of them and rear on the ocean
bed sinuous, tiny jetty. The rope,
however. is to have unrestricted YER
tical NOV ment, to be insured by a
series of kedge anchors at short in
tervals.
Moreover the continuing rope will
be supported by buoys, so as not to
be covered into the sand. Thus in its
unfettered vertical movement, as 1t is
buoyed, the bar Of sand will slowly,
then more and more rapidly, rise
above the very surface Of the ocean.
The rope, saturated in asphaltum, will
rise with it as its continuing cap
stone and obstructor, the dashboard
upon the dam Then will the colder
waters of the Labrador current be
divorced from the beneficent gulf
stream and forced to shift for them
selves, flowing around the outer end
of the jetty, where their influence will
be too far eastward to produce fogs.
Mr.. Rfker describes the gulf stream
as the noblest and grandest of ocean
rivers. He discourses on the magni-
fcent things it would accomplish If it
we're not for its unfortunate mesalli-
ance with the Labrador stream. It
carries more heat to the Arctic than
the direct rays of the sun, says the
engineer. but it is robbed half way,
resulting in stretching warm and cold
bands across the hanks, where the
gulf stream flows 250 feet wide and
200 feet deep. But, just here comes
shoaling, partly bridging the gulf
stream to the north; some part Of
the Labrador Arctic current under
running the gulf stream-rising with
it, going under it, uprising, producing
cross currents and revolving eddies.
The resultant of this union is an ir-
regular, undeveloped gulf stream, an
aimless wanderer, dissipating itself,
disintegrating and dividing into four
fine little branches, one running be-
tween Iceland, and Greenland, one to
the northward of the British Isles,
caroming on Spitzenberg; one butting
into the English coast, and the last
losing itself through the English chan
mel into the North sea, whereas the
/ gulf stream should be on the banks
one solidified, graceful, gracious,
plump and genial river, comforting
blessings, melting all the icebergs
brushing away the cobwebs Of haze
and leaving the banks azure blue, free
and warm as steam heated flat
At the rate Of mile an hour. this
cold blooded Labrador current with
its frosty breath, commingles with
the beautiful gulf stream for 25 mhes,
cooling it with 5O,OOO,O 100000 Of cubic
yards of cold water and causing fogs.
This is more than 100000 tons Of
cold water with temperature of from
S5 degrees to 55 degrees whereas The
gulf stream, which flows between the
Florida Capes and Bemeni in a bulk
10000 100000 cubic yards an hour,
equal to a volume of molten iron big
ger than the Mississippi itself is chill
ed and robbed of its usefulness. The
baneful Labrador current cuts the nor
NAL temperature Of rs degrees of the
gulf stream in this region of freezing,
and exercises its pernicicus influence
10 the very issuing force of the
mother of cean currents herself.
Mechanical Engineer Riker is the
discoverer of the power known to sci
entists as equatorial force. 1t is equa-
torial force that causes the currents
of the oceans, these mighty arteries
and veins in the oceanic circulatiops
of the universe. The source of the
gulf stream is the north and the south
equatorial currents, the two starting
branches Of the gulf stream near the
equator.
"In looking for the cause of inter
secting ocean curents,D said the man
who has done things I'VE find that
terrestrial gravity the force that
drags objects from the poles toward
the equator-and terrestrial centrif-
ugal motion-the force that tends to
throw objects from the equator and
then send them off the earth's surface
on a tangent-have a greater tenden-
cy to move heavy matter toward the
equator than lighter matter.
This is the force that 7 have newly
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