the most northerly of the Molucca or Clove-islands, in the possession of the Dutch.

**TERRA.** See Geography, and Astronomy.

**Terra firma**, in geography, is sometimes used for a continent, in contradistinction to islands.

**Terra del Fogo**, an island of South America, from which it is separated by the straits of Magellan.

**Terræ filius** son of the earth, a student of the university of Oxford; formerly appointed, in public acts, to make jesting and satyrical speeches against the members thereof, to tax them with any growing corruptions, &c.