Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

our geographers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counterpoise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north-west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

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I had abandoned the search: the fiend was either in Tartary or burning away in my cerebellum

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita