AIR OF THE SEA
The air of the sea, taken at a great distance from land, or even on 4iore, and in ports and harbours, when the wind blows from the open,' is in an almost perfect state of purity. Near continents the land winds drive before them an atmosphere always impure, hut at about sixty miles from the coasts this impurity has disappeared. The sea rapidly purifies tlie pestilential atmosphere of continents; hence every expanse of water of n certain breath becomes an absolute obstacle to the propagation of epidemics. Marine atmospheres driven upon l«nd purify sensibly the- air of the regions' which they traverse, this purification elm ho recognised <i Very long way. The sea is the tomb of moulds and aerial schizophytes.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 7
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125AIR OF THE SEA Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 7
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