Inland Sea

May we not connect with the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the lake Parima and the El Dorado?

This is the reason Indians give for the lack of these shell-fish now, upon the shores of the great inland sea.

Then down to the inland sea he went, those impatient arms beckoning him still.

It was uninhabited, all but forgotten, merely one among the myriad isles which dotted the great inland sea.

In that moment of unreasoning panic even the thought of halting so near the inland sea was repugnant.