The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled. — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
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… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
