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Index 



Low & Brother, A. A., 266 



Lucania, steamship, 345 



Lucas, Eliza, 222 



Lusitania, steamship, 344, 346, 349-50, 



351, 422 

 Luxury liners, 339-56 



Macauley Island, 82 

 MacKinder, Sir Halford J., 68-69 

 Madeira Islands, 96, 136, 138 

 Magellan, Fernao de, 143, 150-51, 156, 



163 

 Magnusson, King, 120 

 Mahan, Admiral, 12 

 Maine, Gulf of, 42, 

 Maine, U.S.S., 389 

 Maitland, Lieutenant, 408 

 Majestic, steamship, 345 

 Mallory, Stephen Russell, 377 

 Mamby, Aaron, 305 

 Manhattan Island, 178-79 

 Manley, Charles M., 399 

 Manly, Captain John, 368 

 Maps, 56-57; air routes, Atlantic, 409; 



Atlantic shipping, 193; drainage into 



the Atlantic Ocean, 15; Gulf Stream, 



38; Taylor drift voyage, 41 

 Marconi, Guglielmo, 419 

 Marie Antoinette, Queen, 393 

 Markland, 113, 114, 120, 123 

 Marquette, Father, 175 

 Marshal, Benjamin, 235 

 Marshal, C. H., 240 

 Marshal & Co., C. H., 240 

 Martin, Glenn, 401, 402 

 Mary, yacht, 284-85 

 Masefield, John, 88 

 Mason, Monck, 395 

 Mataura, sailing ship, 306 

 Matthew, 123 



Mauretania, steamship, 344, 346, 349 

 Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 233, 250- 



57, 304, 309- 313' 315-17. 377> 4^2 

 Mayflower, 177 

 McKay, Donald, 247, 248, 253, 265, 



270-75, 306 

 McKay, Donald, clipper ship, 273 

 McKay, Lauchlan, 270, 273, 274 

 McKim, Ann, clipper ship, 265 



McKim, Isaac, 265 



McKinley, William, 389, 399, 416 



Means, 114 



Medici, Lorenzo de, 149 



Mediterranean Sea, 21, 24, 25, 75-76, 



91-92 

 Mediterranean water, 52 

 Melville, Herman, 210, 212 

 Menendez de Aviles, 173 

 Mensura Orbis Terrae, 107 

 Mercator projection, 56 

 Mermaid, dory, 332 

 Merrimac, C.S.S., 376, 377-81 

 Merton, Phillip, 325-26 

 Messina, Straits of, 74, 91, 92 

 Meteor, packet ship, 237 

 Mexico, Gulf of, 20, 25, 38, 50, 150 

 Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 28-29 

 Minuit, Peter, 178, 179 

 Mississippi, U.S.S., 375 

 Mississippi River, 25, 60, 171, 172, 173, 



175, 176 

 Missouri, U.S.S., 375 

 Missouri Compromise, 226 

 Moby Dic\, 212 

 Monitor, U.S.S., 376, 377-81 

 Monroe, James, packet ship, 295 

 Montgolfier brothers, 393 

 Montojo, Admiral, 390 

 Moonshine, 125 

 Morgan, Henry, 166 

 Morgan, Thomas W., 215 

 Morrison, 212 

 Morrison, Admiral, 12 

 Morse, S. F. B., 245, 314-15 

 Moscoso, Luis, 172 

 Mossel Bay, 141 

 Miiller, 81 



Murphy, Robert Cushman, 216 

 Murray, Sir John, 14, 258, 261 

 Muscovy Company, 202 

 Mystic, 202, 214-15 



Naddodd, 108 

 Nansen, Fridtjof, 40, 260 

 Nares, Sir George, 258 

 Narvaez, Panfilo de, 171 

 Natchez, packet ship, 267, 269 

 National Observatory, 251, 256 



