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MR. CROLL having stated (NATURE, August 17) to that, taking my own data, and having “in regard to the Gibraltar current and Dr. C.'s general oceanic circulation, determined the absolute amount of those effects on which his circulation depends,” he has satisfied himself by mathematical investigation “that the work of the resistances greatly exceeds the work of gravity, and that consequently there can be no such circulation as that for which Dr. C. contends,”—I think it well to point out that the question of the existence of such a circulation is not to be disposed of by the calculations of even such an expert computer as Mr. Croll, but must be decided by the collection and comparison of facts ascertained by observation and experiment.
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CARPENTER, W. The Gibraltar Current . Nature 4, 468 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004468a0
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