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It is a matter well known, and eafily to be explained, that the furfacc of the ocean va* ries lefs from the mean annual temperature of its latitude, than land in the fame parallel f: that is, the furface of the fea is colder in fummer, and warmer in winter, than the fur« face of the ground in that latitude.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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Yes | No | Report from furface wrote 2 years 49 weeks ago
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"Wait, furface!" she cried in its language, which wasn't exactly verbal but which came naturally to her.
Harpy Thyme Anthony, Piers, 1934- 1994
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At a diftance the furface feems entirely clothed with trees of various fizes; the tall cocoa-palms are far from being the fmalleft ornament to any country that produces them.
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It is a ruflF, of the thicknefs of a finger, made in a curious manner ot exceedingly fmall feathers, woven fo clofe together, as to form a furface as fmooth as that of the richeft velvet.
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It is nothing but a rock of granite, about 234 meters! in diameter, and from 9 to * 1 2 meters J above the furface of the water.
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Thefe bones were not, as I at firft imagined, depofited on the furface; they were colleded at the bottom of a circular bole, about fixteen or twenty inches in diameter, and eight or ten inches deep.
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The chief of thefe rocks are breakers covered by a few feet of water, but fome rife to a fliort height above the furface.
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Another piece of bamboo is luted into the bottom of the upper pan, or, where but one is ufed, communicating with the upper furface of the metal plate through which the liquor for coolinor the vapour runs to the water
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This rock is furrounded by very deep water; the plummet, at two boats 'length diflant, giving fourteen fathoms, with a bottom covered with fea-weed, goemons and fucus, which rofe ta the level witlt the furface.
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