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title: "2 Arctic Quotes By Matthew Fontaine Maury"
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> [There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fontaine-maury/there-is-a-river-in-the-ocean-in-the-severest-droughts-it-never-fails/)

[Matthew Fontaine Maury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fontaine-maury/)

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> [Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fontaine-maury/could-the-waters-of-the-atlantic-be-drawn-off-so-as-to-expose-to-view/)

[Matthew Fontaine Maury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fontaine-maury/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c36/matthew-fontaine-maury-64546_arctic_could-the-waters-of-the-atlantic-be-draw_1656993.png)

## Other authors on Arctic

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-mckibben-17985.jpg) Bill McKibben 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arctic/bill-mckibben/)
- [Tatiana Schlossberg 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arctic/tatiana-schlossberg/)

## More by Matthew Fontaine Maury

> [It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fontaine-maury/it-is-a-custom-often-practiced-by-seafaring-people-to-throw-a-bottle/)

[Matthew Fontaine Maury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fontaine-maury/)

> [There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fontaine-maury/there-is-a-river-in-the-ocean-in-the-severest-droughts-it-never-fails/)

[Matthew Fontaine Maury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fontaine-maury/)

> [The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fontaine-maury/the-rules-of-scientific-investigation-always-require-us-when-we-enter/)

[Matthew Fontaine Maury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fontaine-maury/)

> [Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fontaine-maury/could-the-waters-of-the-atlantic-be-drawn-off-so-as-to-expose-to-view/)

[Matthew Fontaine Maury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fontaine-maury/)

> [Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fontaine-maury/every-physical-fact-every-expression-of-nature-every-feature-of-the/)

[Matthew Fontaine Maury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fontaine-maury/)

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