compass north
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Starting at compass north and looking all around, it takes twelve or more pictures of the tomb's interior, showing whether it has been looted or whether it still contains articles worth digging for.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our eastern view was now bounded by the range of snowy mountains from Mount Baker, bearing by compass north, to Mount Rainier, bearing north 54 degrees east.
From Handbook to the new Gold-fields by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Accordingly, he turned the craft about, gave it full reef, and started by the compass north but, in fact, directly south.
From The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world by Willis George Emerson
And as the river is crooked exceedingly, a steamboat travelling that route points her bow at every point of the compass, north, south, east, and west, before the voyage is finished.
From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
At noon the south-easternmost Deserter bore by compass north 17°. west, by which we made its latitude 32°.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter
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