Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts
Approved by Commodore Charles Morris, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts: Approved by Commodore Charles Morris, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography After these have been discussed, until the phenomena they conceal have been sufficiently developed, or developed as far as the materials on hand were capable of developing them, then, and not till then, has an explanation been sought. I The plan has been first the fact, and then the cause; and in seeking to account for any one fact, though several explanations may present themselves, that one is preferred which, besides satisfying the case in hand, will serve also to explain the greatest number of other known facts. And even then, such explanation is offered only in place of a better, and it is held only until another, come whence it may, is presented, which will reconcile equally as well a still greater number of; facts. In truth, these investigations have been strict investigations for facts, with the full conviction that facts, when grouped together in sufficient numbers, and catechized with reverence, will themselves reveal their cause, or place in our hands the clew to such explanation as man is permitted to comprehend.
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