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LIFE OF MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY.
In 1831, just before sailing for the Pacific again, Maury became engaged to his cousin and sweetheart, and he then purchased and gave her a little seal, only to be used in writing to him, bearing for inscription the simple word, "Mizpah", {"The Lord watch between thee and me when we are absent one from the other"}.
Forty years after, when an exile, homeless, and separated from his family, he wrote on the fly-leaf of his Bible, while at sea:—"To mt wife. Dost thou remember Genesis, 31st chap., 49th verse?" and on another leaf—"See 2nd Samuel, 22nd chap., 36th verse: 'Thy gentleness hath made me great, my Nannie.'"
