LXXXVII
ON A BATTLESHIP: A GUN TURRET
Part of the deck of one of the most famous of British ships, cleared for action.
LXXXVIII
ON A BATTLESHIP IN THE FORTH
Britain has many beautiful estuaries, but the Forth has features like the distant Highland hills and its enormous Bridge which make it unique among our waterways. The Bridge makes even the largest warship seem a pigmy, yet one has a queer sensation when about to pass under it for the first time; one momentarily expects all the ship’s top hamper to be carried away—everything about the Bridge being on so big a scale that what is safely distant seems perilously close.
