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George Beesley wrote an article in 1956 on the world's first railway: the Loughborough and Nanpanton Railway, which includes a few brief notes on the life of William Jessop, constructing engineer of the line.
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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260