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 t…

- 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 and its bottom are …

- 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 numb…

- 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 it is done. In the …

- 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 face of the world…

- Matthew Fontaine Maury