equinoctial line

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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

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)

He was willing to concede that the geographical position of Paradise was not in Mesopotamia, yet he maintained that it was upon the earth, and in the southern hemisphere, near the equinoctial line.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line.

From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Finlay, Roger Thompson

All of these provinces are situated directly under the equinoctial line between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; but they are two hundred fifty leagues nearer our tropic than the other.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene