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I observed nothing interesting till we came to the Tropick of Cancer, where the ceremony of baptizing was performed on those who had never been a voyage: after passing the Tropick, the Commodore steered too much to the south, our captain observed.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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Tropick; thither we steered our course, and trafficked with the inhabitants for Knives, Beads, Glasses and the like, having in exchange thereof Cloves and Silver.
The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford Henry Neville
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Whosoever feels not the warm gale and gentle ventilation of this Spirit, though I feel his pulse, I dare not say he lives: for truely, without this, to me there is no heat under the Tropick; nor any light, though I dwelt in the body of the Sun.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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Tropick the Island was no sooner seen, than the Jolly boat*
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It met us this morning about four o'clock; what a relief to our poor Sailors, who will now have nothing to do, but dance, sing and make love to the lasses, but let them beware of little Marion; her uncle's eye is never off her, and honest John [Lawson] has an hand that would fell an Ox. By the observation just taken, we will cross the Tropick [of Cancer] in about thirty hours.
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This being done Tropick is spoke to thro 'the trumpet, and with a hollow voice demands what strangers are aboard.
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We are now fairly under the Tropick and are preparing for a farce that is played on this occasion by every ship that goes to or fro under the Tropick.
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This house is extremely pleasant, and so cool that one might forget they were under the Tropick.
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We had a sheep killed yesterday, and have had a Scotch dinner under the Tropick in the middle of the Atlantick.
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The blue is the finest Velvet and the Crimson the brightest satin; but allowing for the superiority of colour produced by the warmth of a Tropick sun, I saw no other difference, and on this discovery I found out that many more of the plants were of the same tribes at least with what we have, but so greatly improved, that they were hardly to be known.
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