Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the SeasLewis, Charles Lee
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Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas
Lewis, Charles Lee
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 128, 129.
“Wind and Current Charts”, 51–63, 83, 144, 249.
Wordsworth, William, 132.
Wright, William, 216.
Wrottesley, Lord John, 59, 68, 128.
Wurttemberg, King of, 205, 208.
Yancey, Robert L., 123.
Yorktown, Battle of, 11.
Zurcher, M., 232.
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| FOOTNOTES: |
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| [1] “Scraps from a Lucky Bag” in _Southern Literary Messenger_, |
| May, 1840. |
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| [2] _Ibid._, December, 1840. |
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| [3] From “The National Observatory” read by Maury before the |
| Virginia Historical Society. It was copied from _The Historical |
| Register_ in the _Southern Literary Messenger_ of May, 1849. |
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| [4] From “Introduction”, p. xiii, to Maury’s _Physical Geography |
| of the Sea_, 1855. |
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| [5] “Physical Geography of the Sea”, 1855, p. 263. |
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| [6] “Sailing Directions”, sixth edition (1854), pp. 725–730. |
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| [7] “Founders of Oceanography”, p. 175. |
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| [8] From “Chapter 1, The Air” by Hugh Robert Mill and D. Wilson |
| Barker in _Science of the Sea_, edited by G. Herbert Fowler for |
| the Challenger Society, 1912, p. 3. |
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| [9] There is a tradition that Field said in this speech: “I am a |
| man of few words: Maury furnished the brains, England gave the |
| money, and I did the work.” But diligent search has failed to |
| discover any authority for the statement. |
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| [10] _Um Estadista do Imperio_ (Paris, 1897), III, 12. |
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| [11] In the _Home Journal_ of New York, September, 1859. |
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| [12] _The Life of Maury_ by Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin, pp. 147, |
| 148. |
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| [13] _Ibid._, pp. 149–154. Maury’s children were Betty, Diana |
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