confines (n.)
- airspace
- approach
- approximation
- area
- belt
- boundaries
- bounds
- circumference
- circumscription
- closeness
- compass
- convergence
- corridor
- country
- department
- district
- division
- environs
- foreground
- ground
- heartland
- hinterland
- immediacy
- land
- limitations
- limits
- marches
- milieu
- nearness
- neighborhood
- outskirts
- pale
- part
- parts
- perimeter
- periphery
- place
- precinct
- premises
- propinquity
- proximity
- quarter
- region
- salient
- section
- skirts
- soil
- space
- terrain
- territory
- vicinity
- zone
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
'T was whisper'd in heaven, 't was mutter'd in hell,
And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell;
On the confines of earth 't was permitted to rest,
And the depths of the ocean its presence confess'd.
