equinoctial line
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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
It was 5� to the south of the equinoctial line.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las
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
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
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
