equinoctial line
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We ran for five days, always coming towards the equinoctial line, where the air and sea became more temperate.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las
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
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
This country is situated eighteen degrees south of the equinoctial line, and fifty-seven degrees farther west than Lisbon, as our instruments showed us.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion
It is true that the sun has very great power there, for the country is distant only twenty-six degrees from the equinoctial line.
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)
