A German translation of the Voyage toTerra Australis.
Terra Australis, Southern Land, was too long, was cumbrous, was Latin.
The London map of 1578, issued with George Best's Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie, barricaded the south pole with a Terra Australis not unlike the design of a switch-back railway.
Captain Burney suggested thatTerra Australis was a name "more familiar to the public.
He certainly saw no chart of Flinders, except the one shown to him at Port Jackson, until the Atlas to the Voyage to Terra Australis was published.
A Dutch translation of the Voyage to Terra Australis.
A few of the higher officers of State were elected in the Senate, among them the Savii Grandi and the Savii di Terra ferma, and the Admiral of the Fleet.
These Savii di Terra ferma, like the Savii agli ordini, held office for six months only.
The six Savii Grandi, who came above the Savii di Terra ferma, superintended the actions of the two boards below them, and, if necessary, issued orders which would override those of the other ministers.
Next in order above the Savii agli ordini came the Savii di Terra ferma.
Don't be uneasy, Sir Wycherly; we'll have the lad safe on terra firma again, in ten minutes.
Yes, sir, but there are so many of us, and all have a hankering after terra firma.
Footnote 94: See the explanation of what the Romans meant by terra varia in the note on Cato V.
Footnote 71: The kind of fence which Varro here describes as "ex terra et lapillis compositis in formis" is also described by Pliny (H.
The third famous member of the trio, Alonzo de Ojeda, obtained authority from the king to colonize Coquibacoa, on the coast of Terra Firma, and received in addition a grant of land six leagues square in the island of Hispaniola.
The name Mundus Novus got placed upon several maps as an equivalent forTerra Sanctæ Crucis, or what we call Brazil; 4.
This testimony was given in 1513, a year after Vespucci's death, and its object was to show that the coast of Terra Firma, so called, had been first seen by Columbus.
It is thought that La Cosa obtained his information as to the insular character of Cuba from Vespucci, when they voyaged together on the coast of Terra Firma, which we now know as the northern shores of South America.
But the phrase Terra Mariae in the charter, though represented there to be the equivalent of Maryland, was significant to a devout Catholic of something better than a compliment to a Catholic queen.
The country on the left bank is not, however, terra firma, but a portion of the alluvial land which forms the extensive and complex delta region of the Japura.
In the afternoon we rounded the westernmost point; the land, which is not terra firma, but simply a group of large islands forming a portion of the Tocantins delta, was then about three miles distant.
There was no path beyond this campo; in fact, all beyond is terra incognita to the inhabitants of Villa Nova.
Most of them have houses also on the terra firma, and reside in the cool palm swamps of the Ygapo islands, as they are called, only in the hot and dry season.
It inhabits only the most retired parts of the forest, on the terra firma, and I observed nothing of its habits.
The banks of the river were of moderate elevation during several days' journey; the terra firma lying far in the interior, and the coast being either lowland or masked with islands of alluvial formation.
The breadth of the river varies hereabout from two and a half to three miles, but neither coast is the true terra firma.
This is a town of some importance, pleasantly situated on the somewhat high terra firma of the left bank of the Tocantins.
All beyond, as before remarked, is terraincognita to the inhabitants of Santarem.
The Parauacu is found on the "terra firma" lands of the north shore of the Solimoens from Tunantins to Peru.
But I had a look that way, and as I looked I could see what looked like an open boat heading our way; and I wondered who she would be and what she would be after in a place like Terra del Fuego.
And now Red Dick and his cargo steamer were belting through the tide rips toward the Terra del Fuego shore, to find a bay, I suppose, and a bit of a beach to haul up and patch things.
Civilization has crowned that terra incognita with seven States and built large and beautiful cities.
Guildford is the first place mentioned on the Terra Regis; Southwark seems to be inadequately treated on a later page.
The author of the Quadripartitus renders bócland by terra hereditaria, terra testimentalis, terra libera, and even by feudum (Edg.
In Dorset they place Dorchester, Bridport, Wareham and Shaftesbury above the rubric Terra Regis[840], and we can not find that they reckon any other place as a borough.
The matter is the sale of the land known under the title of the Terra Vergine.
And the owner of the land known as the Terra Vergine?
His death had made her sole ruler of the Terra Vergine; she had both the knowledge and the strength necessary for culture of the land, and she taught her boy to value and respect the soil.
The people of the district talked under their breath of nothing else than of this resistance which was being preached as a holy war by the youth of Terra Vergine.
It is useless to discuss its price," replied Don Silverio, "and the question is much wider than the limits of the Terra Vergine.
I am Adone Alba, of the Terra Vergine, and my mother is a kind woman.
No one had told her what the evil was which hung over the Terra Vergine; and she never asked questions.
Terra was eight thousand two hundred miles in diameter, with a fairly clear atmosphere and a varying albedo which indicated clouds in the atmosphere.
In any case, the planets Aphrodite and Terra were by far the most interesting.
Bishop of Panama was primate of the Terra Firma, and suffragan to the Archbishop of Peru.
On terra firma I could, of course, economize to any extent.
I don't know how it is, but if I can only see the smallest bit of terra firma between myself and the edge of a precipice, I feel as though I had a whole vast prairie to range over.
Over a million and a half of square leagues, from the Terra del Fuego islands to the River St. Lawrence and Behring's Straits, we are struck at the first glance with the general resemblance in the features of the inhabitants.
Boats were in attendance, and we soon set our wet limbs on terra firma.
Southern California, and this its exquisite metropolis, have been a terra incognita even to the intelligent, until the steam horse lately caracoled this way.
And how light was their step and how they actually felt their way until they reached terra firma!
Its utmost point, which other geographers call the Promontory of the Terra Australis, is of the same latitude as the most southerly parts of Castile, and is about forty-two degrees distant from the equator.
At that time comparatively few men had explored the terra incognita of Riverina with a view to personal settlement.
When poor Tom Hood once wrote that the "summer had set in with its usual severity," little thought the great humorist that he was describing the sad simple earnest of the far land, to him a terra incognita.
From time to time Jack had listened to these tales of Herodotus; had, with some trouble, verified the localities indicated, and seen a pioneer or two who had explored this terra incognita.
Of course, Terra would never be able to corroborate what she had experienced - yet they were on the verge of space travel, and they were a war-like race.
Well, since Terra has a life form like ours, we could use this place as a link in the supply chain.
If he failed, and they all ended up dead, or thrown into the penal colonies on Thista, the trade program with Terrawould be set back at least fifty years.
Her mouth was a pliant sweetness that shoved all his thoughts of Terra into the back of his mind; her body trembled against the lean hardness of his in a shiver of passion.
For the first time in history, Terra is in possession of a scout ship even though it is wrecked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
