The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

744 NELSON S MONUMENT-AN INCIDENT.
particulars of the wide-spread scenery around me, to my son,
then seven years of age, so that he might have them indelibly
fixed in his memory. Three years subsequently, I asked him to
tell me something that he had seen in Scotland, expecting, at
the same time, that he would refer to the ancient castle, containing the great sword of state and the iron-framed crown of
Bruce, or to Nelson's monument and the electric time-ball.
He promptly responded, that it was the place where the boys
played "leap-frog!" He had seen the boys thus playing at the
foot of Nelson's monument.