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SURELY Mr. Ferrel must have misapprehended my arguments, or he would not have advanced the case of the tides against me. Undoubtedly the ocean will sink to its old level when the lifting force of the moon is withdrawn, even though the height to which the waters are raised may not exceed an inch. I agree also with what he says in regard to the improbability of ocean currents being caused by the heaping up of the waters by the winds. I believe that this erroneous view of the matter has done more real mischief to the wind theory than all the arguments advanced by the advocates of the gravitation theory put together. The notion that because the winds are applied to the surface of the ocean they can produce only surface drift is an error of a similar character.
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CROLL, J. Ocean Currents. Nature 5, 399 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005399a0
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