It was the work of years to teach a navigator what he must know, or a cartographer or horomancer or any of the other disciplines that sat in quiet rooms to give the orders that moved men and ships alike.

On the top floor is the lever frame where signalmen are afforded an uninterrupted and commanding view of the junction below, and of Shrewsbury station's five working platforms.

we must not therefore suffer these Acephalists, these circulators and beggars to perswade us […]

The reader of this book declares that he is in good mental and physical fitness for diving, and that he is not under the influence of alcohol, nor any drugs that are contraindicatory to diving.