Maritime Boundary Dispute between India and Sri Lanka (original) (raw)
Centuries later, writing from a different part of the world, Hugo Grotius, the Dutch scholar adduced his own feeling: "…..the ocean that expanse of water which antiquity describes as the immense, the infinite, bounded only by the heavens, parent of all things; the ocean, which the ancients believed was perpetually supplied with water not only by fountains, rivers and sea but the clouds , and by the stars of heaven themselves: the ocean which ,although surrounding this earth, the home of the human race, with the ebb and flows of its tides can be neither seized nor enclosed; nay which rather possesses the earth than is by it possessed."