Meanwhile, it must be remembered that this gulf-weed has not, as some of the uninitiated fancy from its name, anything to do with the Gulf Stream, along the southern edge of which we were steaming.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

The unparalleled facilities for internal navigation, afforded by the numerous rivers of the present and former British colonial possessions in North America, have proved very fatal to the forests of that continent.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh