What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

VOYAGE TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
ocean, and of the atmosphere which envelopes it, and well describes
the close affinity between the two. He dwells upon the temper ature of each, and its life and death creating consequences-of the
winds which blow over the surface of the waters, and of the
climates through which they together roll. Not only does he
treat of the animate and inanimate products of the sea, and of
the currents which circulate through its waters, and impart life
and action to its uttermost depths; but to Captain IMaury we
are indebted for much information-indeed for all that mankind
possesses-of the crust of the earth benieath the blue waters of
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Hopelessly scientific would
all these subjects be in the hands of most men; yet upon each
and all of them Captain Maury enlists our attention, or charmns
us with explanations and theories replete with originality and
genius. His is, indeed, a nautical manual, a handbook of the
sea, investing with fresh interest every wave that beats upon our
shores; and it cannot fail to awaken in both sailors and landsmen a craving to know more intimately the secrets of that
wonderfiil element. The good that Maury has done, in awakening the powers of observation of the officers of the royal and
mercantile navies of England and America, is incalculable."
Such candid compliment is as honorable to the reviewer as
to the reviewed. How superior to the jealousies and detractions
of a narrow-minded national antagonism!
Truly did we, at this part of thie voyage, verify the declaration of the preacher-" The wind goeth toward the south, and
turneth about unto the North; it whirleth about continually,
and the wind returneth again according to its circuits." For on
entering this manr trangqulla, we found that the passage winds
which had thus far swollen our welcoming sails, had either
folded their wings in sleep, or like their feathered comrades,
weary of following the patient vessel on her changeless course,
or obedient to natural laws, had started on their upward and
homeward stretch to cool themselves again in polar regions;
leaving us to the careless sport of the ocean swell, whose "rise
and fall "like that of railroad stocks, gave little promise of realization of hope to those most interested-the representatives of
bona/,e investment. We spent four days, including a Sunday,
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