"Anti-trade" Quotes from Famous Books
... point," replied the captain. "One authority says that the Gulf Stream 'is caused by the motion of the sun in the ecliptic,' and I think there is a good deal of reason in this. Another philosopher puts it down to the influence of the anti-trade and passage winds blowing from the west to the east along the zone in which the stream travels; and I think much might be said about that argument, especially as the westerly current south of the tropic ... — The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson |