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ultima Thule

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ultima Thule
1. another name for Thule
2. any distant or unknown region

Ultima Thule
to Romans, extremity of the world, identified with Iceland. [Rom. Legend: LLEI, I: 318]


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My cognizance of the pit had become known to the inquisitorial agents -- the pit whose horrors had been destined for so bold a recusant as myself -- the pit, typical of hell, and regarded by rumor as the Ultima Thule of all their punishments.
 
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