"Terra incognita" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Kortlandt (Shortland or Lackland) was supposed, like that of the illustrious Jean Sansterre, to indicate that he had no land; but he insisted, on the contrary, that he had great landed estates somewhere in Terra Incognita, and he had come out to the New World to look after them. He was the first great land speculator that we read of ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester
... few words from a private letter of his referring to Butler's tour: "It was remarkable in the amount of ground covered and the small sum spent, but still more in the direction taken in the first part of the tour. Dauphine was then almost a TERRA INCOGNITA to ...
— Samuel Butler's Cambridge Pieces • Samuel Butler |
