Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas
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Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas is by Charles Lee Lewis, Associate Professor United States Naval Academy. A short note signed by Mrs. E.E. Moffitt, President, The Maury Association, says it is eminently appropriate that a life of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury should be written in the environment of Annapolis. The text says the ships in a race, as were those in the former race, were all furnished with Maury's charts, and that the Flying Fish won in just 92 days and 4 hours.
The text says Mrs. Maury had been unwilling to come to Mexico, indeed to leave Virginia at all, but at last consented to go to England where the children might enjoy better educational advantages. The text says that early in the month of August, 1839, Maury was detached from the Engineer at Norfolk with leave for one month and set out very soon thereafter from his home in Fredericksburg to visit his parents in Tennessee.
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- Charles Lee Lewis
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- 200
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