The Atlantic Ocean is geographically a misnomer, socially and politically a dwindling superstition.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
From the Age of Stone to the civilized era of to-day, the Isle of Man has been, in succession, the home of every known race and people who have flourished in Western Europe; and though subject, in turn, to the Irish Gael and to the Welsh Brython, to Northmen and to Danes, to Scots and to English, and the scene of sweeping transformations in religion, as pagan cults succeeded one another, to give way to the teaching of St. Patrick and his disciples St. German and St. Maughold, and this finally to the Protestant form of Christianity, the island alone of Celtic lands has been strangely empowered to maintain in almost primitive purity its ancient constitution and freedom, and though geographically at the very centre of the United Kingdom, is not a part of it.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
geographically, there was here but one direction.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook