[Mr Ramsbotham]

"... that exquisite waist, which seemed the isthmus of earth and heaven -- the Panama which divided the North America of her intellect from the Southern Continent of her luxuriant charms --- how we longed to make our arms the only railroad of that region, pouring the wild Atlantic of our passionate desires into the calm Pacific of enjoyment!"

For a family magazine of the mid-nineteenth century, that's damned erotic!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Yikes! I should have put a Mature Audiences warning on this post.