"Litterateur" Quotes from Famous Books
... Antilla, or Antilia, is still a matter of conjecture. Humboldt attributes to a "litterateur distingue" the solution of the enigma, from a passage in Aristotle's "De Mundo," which speaks of the probable existence of unknown lands opposite to the mass of continents which we inhabit. These countries, be they small or great, whose shores ... — The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton |