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  1. Ocean current branching from the warm waters
  2. of the equatorial current, which flows N from
  3. the Gulf of Mexico. It slows to a widening
  4. `drift' off Newfoundland, splitting as it
  5. flows E across the Atlantic, and warms what
  6. would otherwise be a colder climate in the
  7. British Isles and Western Europe.
  8.