"Cayo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shoals of seaweed which cover their surface, as well as the heat of the surrounding atmosphere, all indicate the Gulf-stream. Its rapidity diminishes towards the north, at the same time that its breadth increases and the waters become cool. Between Cayo Biscaino and the bank of Bahama the breadth is only 15 leagues, whilst in the latitude of 28 1/2 degrees, it is 17, and in the parallel of Charlestown, opposite Cape Henlopen, from 40 to 50 leagues. The rapidity of the current is from three to five miles an ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
... Pero poco le valia. Porque sobre el cargan muchos, Y le dan grandes heridas, Tantas que cayo alli muerto Entre ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott |
