"A Grand Book an Honor to America." 



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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 



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THE SEA. 



By LIEUT. M. F. MAUKY, U. S. N. 



With Wood-cuts and Charts. New Edition. Enlarged and Im- 

 proved. 8vo, Muslin, $1 50. 



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Lieutenant Maury, in his fascinating book. Blackwood's Magazine. 



We err greatly if Lieut. Maury' s book will not hereafter be classed with the 

 works of the great men who have taken the lead in extending and improving 

 knowledge and art ; his book displays, in a remarkable degree, like the *' ad- 

 vancement of learning" and the natural history of Buffon, profound research 

 and magnificent imagination. London Illustrated News. 



We have not met for a long period with a book which is at once BO minute 

 and profound in research, and so plain, manly, and eloquent in expression. * * 

 At almost every page there are proofs that Lieut. Maury is as pious as he is 

 learned. * * * This is but one passage of a book which will make a sensation not 

 like that or equal to that made by " Uncle Tom's Cabin," but a durable and ex- 

 panding impression in the general mind, and hereafter Lieut. Maury will be re- 

 membered among the great scientific men of tlfe age, and the benefactors of 

 mankind. London Economist. 



We have scarcely ever met with a work that has given us more instruction 

 and pleasure. Under the author's clear and familiar treatment, the Ocean no 

 longer seema a mere mass of waters, unvaried except by storms and tides; it 

 becomes a living thing, as it were, an immense vital organ, composed of a won- 

 derful congeries of powers, and performing a wonderful part in the natural econ- 

 omy of our terraqueous globe. Its currents and drifts, the temperature of its 

 different parts, the depths of its several basins, its contents, the mountains, table 

 lands, and profound valleys that occupy its bottom, its action on the atmosphere 

 and the counteraction, its processes of evaporization, the courses of winds bear- 

 ing its vapors to the regions where they are precipitated in rain or snow, the 

 great maritime routes across its expanse, and how they are determined by oce- 

 anic and atmospherical phenomena all are set forth in a plain, vivid, and very 

 impressive manner. TTniversalist Quarterly Review. 



A grand book, an honor to America. Presbyterian Quarterly Review. 



Whoever may wish a perfect treat among the novelties of science, will find it 

 in the "Physical Geography of the Sea.." Methodist Quarterly Review. 



Pre-eminently popular and practical. Some of the theories of this ingenious 

 book have already brought thousands, or even millions of dollars into the hands 

 of commerce. As a contribution to science, and, above all, to popular and prac- 

 tical knowledge, hardly enough praise can be uttered. N. Y. Daily Times. 



Lieut. Maury's eulogy will be found, like that of the discoverer of the compass, 

 in the practice of every future navigator, and his discoveries will kindle a pride 

 in generations to come of his countrymen, akin to that we feel in the achieve- 

 ments of science of Franklin and Fulton. Journal of Commerce. 



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