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.… — 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
