Matthew Fontaine Maury Quote

To look down upon such a scene [a coral garden] in the great bosom of the ocean is like gazing upon the splendors of fairyland itself.


Physical Geography, Part II, Section IV (p. 41), University Publishing Co. 1894


To look down upon such a scene [a coral garden] in the great bosom of the ocean is like gazing upon the splendors of fairyland itself.

To look down upon such a scene [a coral garden] in the great bosom of the ocean is like gazing upon the splendors of fairyland itself.

To look down upon such a scene [a coral garden] in the great bosom of the ocean is like gazing upon the splendors of fairyland itself.

To look down upon such a scene [a coral garden] in the great bosom of the ocean is like gazing upon the splendors of fairyland itself.