 | Richard Henry Major - Australia - 1859 - 356 pages
...seldom is the country visited unless when sailors are driven there by storms. The ' Australis Terra' begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and...it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world." The above significant statement was printed, it will be remembered, before any discovery of Australia... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - Australia - 1865 - 478 pages
...by storms. The Australis Terra begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is ascertained by some to be of so great an extent, that if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as ajifth part of the world." But who was the discoverer ? This has not been ascertained, but many ingenious... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - Australia - 1865 - 482 pages
...Australis Terra begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is ascertained by some to fie of so great an extent, that if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as ajifih part of the world." But who was the discoverer ? This has not been ascertained, but many ingenious... | |
 | Pedro Fernandes de Queirós - Australia - 1874 - 52 pages
...southern of all lands, and is separated from New Guinea by a narrow strait." He adds — that " it is maintained by some to be of so great an extent...would be regarded as a fifth part of the world." It seems therefore certain that De Quir was not the discoverer of the real continent ; that his Australia... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...and seldom is the country visited unless when sailors are driven there by storms. The Anstralis Terra wo lives in his desires. A man hath a body, and that...body is confined to a place ; but where friendship pirt of the world " In 160-, a part of the Australian coa«t was visited by the Dutch yacht, the Duyphcn.... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Australasia - 1879 - 760 pages
...there by storms. The Australis Terra begins at one or two degrees from the equator, and is ascertained by some to be of so great an extent, that if it were...would be regarded as a fifth part of the world." It is evident, therefore, that the northern part of the country was tolerably well known long before Torres,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...and seldom is the country visited unless when sailors are driven there by storms. The Austral! Terra begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and...maintained by some to be of so great an extent that ¡f it were thoroutbly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world." In 1ДО. a part... | |
 | James A. MacGregor - Australia - 1883 - 138 pages
...and seldom is the country visited, unless when sailors are driven there by storms. It is of so great extent that if it were thoroughly explored it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world." New Guinea is an island of immense extent. It stretches through twenty degrees of longitude, with a... | |
 | T. A. Coghlan - New South Wales - 1895 - 484 pages
...particulars respecting its geographical relation to New Guinea, venturing the opinion that, were it thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world. Early in the Seventeenth Century, Phillip the Third of Spain sent out an expedition from Callao, in... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Australia - 1888 - 510 pages
...and seldom is the country visited unless when sailors are driven there by storms. The Australis Terra begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and...it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world." The above is so vague and suppositous that it would scarcely be worth quoting, were it not for the... | |
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Terra' begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is maintained by some to be of so great an extent, that if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world. 
