Previous to the 27th a large portion of our army, including two brigades of Hessians, had crossed over from Staten Island, and, landing between Gravesend and flatland, some of them encamped in that neighbourhood, while the Hessians pushed on to a place called Flatbush.
"Hurricane Hurry"
W.H.G. Kingston
But suppose we were beings in flatland, beings with only two dimensions and without the power to point in any direction except in the plane we lived in.
"The Teaching of Geometry"
David Eugene Smith