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The ultimate outcome of this plan would be to
possess a substantial steamer under command
of an accomplished seaman & navigator with
a small corps of adjunct professors or teachers
in the several departments of mathematics, physics
& the natural sciences. This would become
an unrivalled seminary for practical surveying
& navigation. In such a roving school geology
mineralogy, botany, zoology & mining could be
most rapidly & thoroughly taught. Connected
with such a vessel a small steam launch of
light draught would be needed capable of
entering all lagunes & rivers to carry classes
inland to visit mines & make geological
botanical & zoological explorations.

For geological natural history & surveying
expeditions some general camping outfit
would also be needed. Such an adjunct to the
university would furnish unrivalled
facilities for making natural history collecting
& laboratory stations might be established at
convenient points for prosecuting biological
researches. I think also such a school
would be unrivalled for stimulating anew the
decaying zeal for real scientific seamanship in

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