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lon.

American  

abbreviation

  1. longitude.


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When the sound shivered away she saw her father rise and address the assembly in his dry courtroom voice: “Gentlemen, our speaker for today is Mr. Grady O’Han- lon. He needs no introduction. Mr. O’Hanlon.”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Al-Atwal locates it in 65° 20' E. lon., and 25° 20' N. lat; Al-Kanun in lon.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It is sufficient for us to know that the capital city was not far from Lob or Lop Nor, into which in lon. 38d E. the Tarim flows.

From A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline by Faxian, ca. 337-422

Eitel says, "The Taxila of the Greeks, the region near Hoosun Abdaul in lat. 35d 48s N., lon. 72d 44s E."

From A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline by Faxian, ca. 337-422

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