equinoctial line

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I met with them both in northern and southern Brazil, and have seen them in collections from Par� directly under the equinoctial line.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

They thought there was nothing south of the equinoctial line but an immense sea and some poor and barren islands.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

Peel's politics to both sides so incline, He may be called the equinoctial line.

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark

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)

A ceremony practised on passengers on their first passing the equinoctial line: a riotous and ludicrous custom, which from the violence of its ducking, shaving, and other practical jokes, is becoming annually less in vogue.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir