septentrional

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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.

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

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

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

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