Thy Friends without the help of Prophecie, / Read Goals and Gibbets in thy Deſtiny; […]

Between the High Street and the shingle beach, divided from the rest of the town by a drawbridge, was Portsmouth Point, ‘the Wapping of Portsmouth’, a picturesque, heterogeneous assemblage of taverns, liquor-shops, eating-houses, cook-shops, tailors, drapers, pawnbrokers, watch-jobbers, and trinket-merchants, backed by a warren of mean streets and alleys.

a preelectric telegraph system

Abbreviation of harpsichord.