Truly, my Master, said I, never yet Saw I so clearly as I now discern, There where my wit appeared incompetent, That the mid-circle of supernal motion, Which in some art is the Equator called, And aye remains between the Sun and Winter, For reason which thou sayest, departeth hence Tow'rds the septentrion, what time the Hebrews Beheld it tow'rds the region of the heat.
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Dante Alighieri
And from Babylon where the soldan dwelleth, to go right between the Orient and the septentrion toward the great Babylon, is forty journeys to pass by desert.
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Mandeville, John, Sir
Also in the head of that sea of Galilee, toward the septentrion is a strong castle and an high that hight Saphor.
"The-Travels-of-Sir-John-Mandeville"
Mandeville, John, Sir