equinoctial line

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When we had sailed for 300 leagues, being 3� to the south of the equinoctial line, a land was sighted 130 at a distance of twenty-two leagues, at which we were astonished.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

We took possession of it, in the name of his most serene majesty, and found it to be pleasant and verdant, and situated five degrees south of the equinoctial line.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

Part of this continent is in the Torrid Zone, beyond the equinoctial line towards the South Pole.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

Equator, or equinoctial line, an imaginary line passing round the earth, from east to west, and directly under the sun, which always shines nearly perpendicularly down upon all countries situated near the equator.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Such rivers abounded from the equinoctial line to the Gulf of St. Michael.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter