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En el septentrional, que es el mas inmediata á Gualpi hay dos anillos distantes entre si un tiro de piedra.— 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
_Cosmos_, the septentrional point of Asia. "— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
This is the obvious meaning of the scholion: "Nemthur est civitas in septentrional!— Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
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.— By the Ionian Sea
Many voyages have been pretended, yet hitherto never any thoroughly accomplished by our nation, of exact discovery into the bowels of those main, ample, and vast countries extended infinitely into the north from thirty degrees, or rather from twenty-five degrees, of septentrional latitude, neither hath a right way been taken of planting a Christian habitation and regiment (government) upon the same, as well may appear both by the little we yet do actually possess therein, and by our ignorance of the riches and secrets within those lands, which unto this day we know chiefly by the travel and report of other nations, and most of the French, who albeit they cannot challenge such right and interest unto the said countries as we, neither these many years have had opportunity nor means so great to discover and to plant, being vexed with the calamities of intestine wars, as we have had by the inestimable benefit of our long and happy peace, yet have they both ways performed more, and had long since attained a sure possession and settled government of many provinces in those northerly parts of _America_, if their many attempts into those foreign and remote lands had not been impeached by their garboils at home.— Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland

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