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LAND-FALL
LAND-FALL, (atterrage, Fr.) the first land discovered after a sea voyage: hence it is common for ships, who accost each other at sea, to wish a good land-fall at parting, by which they imply a discovery of land, at or near the place whither their course is directed, and which they expect to make by their journals.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 170, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0784.html