Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve