equinoctial line
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Southwestward toward the equinoctial line He steered his barks, for vast was his design.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)
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
It was situated within the torrid zone, south of the equinoctial line, where the south pole is elevated five degrees and distant from said island, bearing south, about five hundred leagues.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
We who reside in Lisbon, nearly forty degrees north of the equinoctial line, are distant from those who reside on the other side of the line, in angular meridional length, ninety degrees—that is, obliquely.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
Under the equinoctial line he has no disposition for exertion, his physiological relations with the climate making quietism most agreeable to him.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
