Portolans are as old as the European mariner's magnetic compass, and for about two centuries the two depended on each other for the growth and safe passage of Mediterranean trade.

How and why Sir Thomas turned author is minutely told by himself. After the battle of Worchester, Sept. 3, 1651, his lodgings were sacked by some ‘ exquisite snaps and clean shavers, who handed over six score and eight quires and a half of his MS. to inferior and posterior uses;’ but happily ‘ one quaternion ’ was picked up in the street, and thence called Ekskubalauron — being ‘ the discovery in the kennel of a most exquisite Jewel, more precious than diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen of any;’ a chosen specimen, in short, of his literary ‘ wares, brain‐babes, of far greater value than ever from the East Indies were brought in ships to Europe ’ — its ‘ scope ’ being — as he further explains — partly epænetick, partly doxologetickal.

You're going to wear out that game if you keep playing so rough with it.

I guess it shows a couple of things, doesn't it; one is, when we're talking about 1941, although the industrial potential of the United States is there, the actual industrial production that we're so used to thinking of when it comes to World War II hasn't quite spooled up yet, because we're talking - we're talking there, about, as you say, they're quibbling about the Navy requisitioning a number of guns that's the equivalent to, later in the war, y'know, barrel-wise, the same number as you'd find as the heavy antiaircraft armament of a single battleship, and they're smaller guns[…]