One reason why a ship will not sail close-hauled on even keel with helm amidships, is that the masts are too far aft, and this may be proved by a “stiff ship” going “upon a wind” five or six knots an hour without perceptible heelings, […]

The catastrophic injury ratio of male-to-female motorbikers is 8.5, probably reflecting a higher proportion of male motorbike riders in the Ontario population (Table 18.2).

Well I never, all these plenums! What a turn-up for the book, eh?

The houtou shuns the society of man: the plantations and cultivated parts are too much disturbed to engage it to settle there […]