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less interesting, seemed to call for a re-cast of the work. Indeed several new chapters have been added to this edition, and many new subjects have been treated of in it. New views also have been presented, and the errors of former views corrected wherever in them farther research has pointed out error. These researches have grown so wide that they comprehend not only the physics of the sea, but they relate extensively to its meteorology also; hence the present title, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and its Meteorology.


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