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Ocean Cables of oceanic cables ; he organized the system of croi) obser- 

 vation which has proved of such countless value ; and in 

 a hundred other ways that are not sensational did he 

 labour to benefit mankind. If sheer usefulness were the 

 universal test applied to greatness, Matthew Fontaine 

 Maury, next to George Washington, would be the great- 

 est Virginian. 



