Whenever the locomotive was working hard there was unmistakable evidence of its higher power than its predecessors in the brilliant and explosive arcing between conductor shoes and the third rail; this was particularly vivid in Quarry Tunnel in the down direction, where the display equalled anything we have seen on the frostiest of nights in an electrified third-rail area.

Like Pisces and Capricorn, Aquarius is located in that part of the sky known as Astral Sea, a region inhabited by water asterisms such as Eridanus, Cetus (the Whale), and the Dolphin.

My son, though alone, is brave. Oscar is like a beam of the sky: he turns around, and the people fall.

These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment.