And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The vessels outside the windows are well below, so she must be set up in permanent dry-dock ashore. Gerard V would have said of that reading room: "Something wonderful!".
Everyone assumes salt water. I may be wrong but I have seen far larger boats on Big Rideau Lake. No long period swells at all, not like Lake Superior. Though why you would want all those business files on a pleasure craft......Steve_in_Ottawa
Boat? Seaplane?
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is, all of those books and periodicals have to add a "ton" of unnecessary weight. No?
ReplyDeleteBull shit!, as always.
DeleteThe vessels outside the windows are well below, so she must be set up in permanent dry-dock ashore. Gerard V would have said of that reading room: "Something wonderful!".
ReplyDeleteThere are no restraining bars on the book racks. A mild swell and they'll all be on the deck.
ReplyDeleteLots of reading material for a long voyage. If it leaves port.
ReplyDeleteEveryone assumes salt water. I may be wrong but I have seen far larger boats on Big Rideau Lake. No long period swells at all, not like Lake Superior. Though why you would want all those business files on a pleasure craft......Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteAgreed. There are many lakes with this kind of view (e.g., Flathead Lake).
DeleteSort of looks like a davit arm thru the right side windows. Maybe on a larger ship and someone turned a launch into library space.
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