tantalem

Updated: May 12, 2025

In the former are the Islands Hastings and Tantalem: the latter washes the coast of Cochin China; a coast that suffers more from the encroachment of the sea than any other known: in five years the sea gained 190 feet from east to west.

Mrs. David Osborne - The World of Waters: A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea