septentrional

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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

And on this half, toward the west, is the kingdom of Turkestan, that stretcheth him toward the west to the kingdom of Persia, and toward the septentrional to the kingdom of Khorasan. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Now while I’m examining them, watch closely, and see if you do not observe the peculiar curve of the nostril I was speaking to you about as characterising the septentrional species of the tribe.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

Cow's milk could be obtained in very small quantities, but it was of evil flavour; butter, in the septentrional sense of the word, did not exist.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George

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