The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4

Everybody knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is—or, alas, _was_—the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss.

每个人都知道，总的来说，世界上最美好的地方是——或者，唉，曾经是——荷兰小镇冯德沃特伊米蒂斯。

Of the date of this origin, however, I grieve that I can only speak with that species of indefinite definiteness which mathematicians are, at times, forced to put up with in certain algebraic formulae.

然而，关于其起源的日期，我只能以一种数学家有时在某些代数公式中不得不接受的不确定的确定性来表达。