equinoctial line

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When we had sailed for 300 leagues, being 3� to the south of the equinoctial line, a land was sighted 130 at a distance of twenty-two leagues, at which we were astonished.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las

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

We took possession of it, in the name of his most serene majesty, and found it to be pleasant and verdant, and situated five degrees south of the equinoctial line.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

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

Part of this continent is in the Torrid Zone, beyond the equinoctial line towards the South Pole.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las