Therefore, such waters of the torrid zone as are moved southward from their high sea-level, caused by the trade winds abreast the Brazilian coast, are largely turned away from the high southern latitudes. It is true, even with an enlarged Cape Horn channel, they can always flow along the South American coast to an inferior low sea-level, caused by the westerly winds blowing the surface waters of the sea away from the coast of Argentine and Patagonia; but on gaining that region they meet the cold ice-bearing currents which turn away east of Cape Horn from the great southern drift current to gain the same low sea-level which attracts the Brazil water. Consequently, the ice-bearing currents from the south, which branch off from the great southern drift current, are able to largely turn away the warm Brazil current from the higher southern latitudes; and, furthermore, the great southern drift current which passes through the Cape Horn channel, and so onward around the globe, also partly turns away the Mozambique current as well as the East Australian current, and so largely prevents their waters from warming the southern seas. Therefore, it is evident that, whenever the Cape Horn channel obtains sufficient capacity to give an independent circulation to the southern ocean, the conditions are favorable for the increase of cold in the southern latitudes. For it is because of the large exclusion of the tropical waters from the southern seas that ice-sheets have been able to form in early periods and in later epochs on the antarctic lands, and store away the annual frosts for thousands of years, and at the same time furnish icebergs sufficient to chill the waters of the southern temperate oceans, and consequently make cold such of the surface waters of the sea as are forced into the southern latitudes by the winds in surface currents, and so returned to warmer seas in cold under-currents, and thus with such frigid combinations bring about cold periods. Thus it appears, as I have previously shown, that it is owing partly to there being more of the surface waters of the sea forced southward by the prevailing winds than they impel northward that the cold under-currents are maintained; but it also requires an independent circulation of the southern ocean, such as I have pointed out, to cool its surface waters before they can sink and form cold under-currents.