septentrional

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If the swastika and the septentrional set of ideas spread from one centre then we should expect to find them accompanied by traces of a common language.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

En el septentrional, que es el mas inmediata á Gualpi hay dos anillos distantes entre si un tiro de piedra.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

"And unless they have been able to double Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope," replied Shandon, "they must necessarily have rounded the septentrional coasts of America—that's what I call indisputable, doctor."

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules

The land lieth south and north, containing in length between 300 and 400 miles, accounting from Cape Race, which is in 46 degrees 25 minutes, unto the Grand Bay in 52 degrees, of septentrional latitude.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Hayes, Edward, fl. 1580.

During this time Franklin, by an overland route, traversed the septentrional coasts of America from the River Mackenzie to Turnagain Point.

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules