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THE first impression which one gains in turning over the pages of these seven reports is that, if genius be, as Dr. Johnson asserted, an infinite capacity for taking pains, then the compilers of these statistical records possess that attribute in a very high degree. One turns over page after page of systematically prepared data1, unquestionably the outcome of innumerable observations which have been carefully and religiously made through long periods of time, and one cannot but admire the patient, painstaking zeal of these scientific workers who have concentrated their energies on this special field of enterprise, in the service of their country, for the development of its resources and the expansion of its commerce.
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C., B. American Hydrography 1 . Nature 85, 283–284 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085283a0
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