NNW
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Their shape indicates the glacier moved in a NNW to SSE direction.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Friday and Saturday are looking at a jump in swell reaching shoulder to head high with improving conditions and N to NNW winds at 10mph.
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NNW Estelí contained four embryos that measured 5 mm. in crown-rump length.
From Records of Harvest Mice, Reithrodontomys, from Central America, with Description of a New Subspecies from Nicaragua by Anderson, Sydney
NNW Rock Springs, 69305; Mesa Verde, northern end, 8100 ft.,
From Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Anderson, Sydney
Calm 25 8 p.m. brought up in Aguada Roads 30�00 82 80 82 81 16.09 N 73.21 E — 85 NNW to NNE 1 to 3 26 To Goa in steam launch.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
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