INDEX 



325 



Wadell, 81 



Wagner, 172 



Walton, Izaak, 194 



War of 1812, 284, 286, 290, 

 292 



Washington, the, 127 



West Greenland, 171 



West Indies, 8, 24, 59, 64, 80, 

 99, 109, 117, 128, 130, 197, 

 208, 210, 212, 216, 217, 220, 

 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 230, 

 231,234, 242 f., 244, 245, 246, 

 256, 271, 278, 280, 282, 283, 

 284 



Wedgeport, 197 



Wegener, 29, 32, 35 



Weizsacker, von, 14 



Weymouth, George, 263 



Whale fisheries, 179 f. 



White, John, 108 



White Mountains, 258 



Williams, Colonel John, 125 



Williams, Jonathan, Thermomet- 

 Tied Navigation^ 293 



Williams, Roger, 223, 281 



Wind engine, 1 59 ff . 

 Wind-current theory, 133ff. 

 Windward Islands, 99, 103, 129 

 Wishaw, Mrs., 68 f. 

 Woods Hole, 36, 197; Oceano- 



graphic Institution, 140, 143. 



183 

 Woolwich, 239 

 Wroth, Lawrence, Some Ameri- 



ean Contributions to the Art of 



Navigation^ 292 f. 

 Wuest, 137 

 Wyndham, 246 

 Wyville-Thompson ridge, 99 



Xenines, Pedro, 237 f. 



Yucatan, 28, 59, 129, 216, 217; 

 Channel, 103; Straits of, 99 



Zealand, 137 

 Zeus, 62 



Zobell, Claude, 54 

 Zoeppritz, 134 

 Zuider Zee, 168 



