THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 
LIFE ON AND IN THE OCEAN. 
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1. EAST of North and South America, you remember, 
is the Atlantic Ocean. Beyond the ocean, are two other 
continents, — Europe, which is opposite us; and Africa, 
opposite Mexico and South America. At the north, the 
Atlantic joins the frozen ocean called the Aretic Ocean, 
on the shores of which the Kskimos live; and at the 
south it joins another frozen ocean called the Antarctic 
Ocean. You see that those parts of it must be very 
cold ; but the middle is warm, like the lands beside it. 
2. In every part of this ocean, are ships going to 
and fro between the continents that border it, carrying 
goods and people from one country to another. Great 
steamers, also, built on purpose to carry passengers, are 
constantly plying between our large seaports, like New 
York and Boston, and the ports of Europe. They go 
as fast as possible all the time, — day and night; but 
the ocean is so very broad, that tlıey are six to ten days 
in crossing it. 
3. Before people began to build steamers, it took 
much longer to cross the Atlantic. "The ships ge 
scarcely half as fast * "lc steamers; and if there is