Their decision was clinched by a Memorandum of General Beatson, late Governor of the island, dated July 29th, recommending St. Helena, because all the landing places were protected by batteries, and the semaphores recently placed on the lofty cliffs would enable the approach of a rescue squadron to be descried sixty miles off, and the news to be speedily signalled to the Governor's House.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
The man who had witnessed her discomfiture-the man who had dared to be within one hundred miles of her when her daintily shod feet, with a display of diaphanous stocking, had been waving in the air like two wobbly semaphores celebrating Dominion Day or the Fourth of July, or-or something.
"The Law-Breakers"
Ridgwell Cullum
218. Plantation House was also the centre of the semaphores of the island.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose