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From being one of the most inaccessible districts of the north the very ultima Thule of civilization Caithness became a pattern county for its roads, its agriculture, and its fisheries. In Sinclair's youth, the post was carried by a runner only once a week, and the young baronet then declared that he would never rest till a coach drove daily to Thurso.
It is just possible that when he was at Thule, by which he meant Iceland, he may have heard of the explorations in the direction of Greenland and Newfoundland; and that, although by other navigators these lands were regarded as a part of the continent of Europe, he may have had some glimmerings of an idea that they were part of land and islands in the West; and he was much too jealous of his own reputation as the great and only originator of the project for voyaging to the West, to give away any hints that he was not the only person to whom such ideas had occurred.
And anyhow, we don't want to give another jerk on Hot Rod. We might jerk something loose this time. We've already wiped out Thule Base and there's no use adding scalps to an already full belt." "O.K.," said Ishie.
Columbus is there made to say, that at the Ultima Thule, which be reached, "the tides were so great as to rise and fall twenty-six fathoms," i.e. 156 feet. Of course this an absurdity; for no tides in Europe rise much above 50 feet. But even this reduced estimate must be excessive.
I myself had hoped rather than expected ever to reach this "Ultima Thule" of the East: and when I found that I really could do so now, had I but courage to trust myself for a thousand miles' voyage in a Bugis prau, and for six or seven months among lawless traders and ferocious savages, I felt somewhat as I did when, a schoolboy, I was for the first time allowed to travel outside the stage-coach, to visit that scene of all that is strange and new and wonderful to young imaginations-London!
I was witness to the rise of all three of them, and have followed them in their greatest parts throughout their most brilliant and eminent and successful careers, and can say of each as of Mr. Jefferson: More than King can no man be Whether he rule in Cyprus or in Dreams. There shall be Kings of Thule after kings are gone.
Feeling that the story I was telling led me along the outer edge of what is now knowledge that I was treading the shores of the ultima Thule, of the yet discovered world of truth I did not venture upon the world beyond. My only hope was to afford some data to guide the course of those who may attempt to traverse it.
I noticed that he looked gaunt, and I found a bitter satisfaction in the thought that, perhaps, in Helen's "three-four months" he had not seen, until that night, either of the women with whose lives his own had been entangled. "Just one more," begged Kitty, when Helen stopped. "You're my only hope; do sing, Helen." Dropping the mandolin, Helen began without accompaniment "The King of Thule:"
Thus the latitude of Thule, according to Ptolemy, is 64 degrees north, and the parallel through the cinnamon country 16° 24' south, that is, 80° 24' on the whole, a difference from the truth of not more than six or seven degrees. It is remarked by D'Anville, and Dr.
'Not Penzance then, which I know is your very Ultima Thule; not Penzance, nor yet Orkney. Is there no other place except Southend? 'There is Cromer in Norfolk, perhaps ten hours. 'Is Cromer by the sea? 'Yes; what we call the sea. 'I mean really the sea, Paul? 'If you start from Cromer right away, a hundred miles would perhaps take you across to Holland.
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