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CHAPTER I
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General Introduction
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THE OCEANS
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OCEANUS,” son of Heaven“ and Earth, was the name given
by the Greeks in. days gone by to an ever—owing river
that they supposed to ow around the earth they thought
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Later the name became—applied to thosewaters
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that were far outside the range of land, being rst used to
signify the Atlantic Océan which lay beyond the Pillars
of Hercules.
To this day the name has the
signicance
and dierentiates the great open water masses from the
,seas,* gults, and straits, that lie around their borders.
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The Atlantic, the Pacic, and the‘Indian, are the three
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great oceans of the world.
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The rst, the gravé of the
mythiCal Atlantis ; the second, named “ El Mar Pacico,’î
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by Magellan, so calm were his rst weekstherein_;. the
third called after the great country that bounds it
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north.
In addition, the waters that—'surro'und the North—_
Pole and tho‘se that lie along the coasts of'the—"Antarcc
Continent, are sometimes'termed the Arctic and ' Great !
Southem- oceans respectively.'
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Ar0undthe‘ borders of
lie thegenclosed seas
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cut oû“ by narr0W straits, such as the Mediterranean, the
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Baltic Sea, and thé“Persian Gulf ;. theïfringing orpartially'"
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