Master Thorne, in the sixteenth century, expressed the resolute spirit of that energy in a phrase: "There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea Innavigable"; and in every part of the globe this British spirit has applied itself to many a land that looked hopeless at first, and has frequently found it to be one: "whose rich feet are mines of gold, Whose forehead knocks against the roof of stars."
"Terre Napoleon A history of French explorations and projects in Australia"
Ernest Scott