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During this time Franklin, by an overland route, traversed the septentrional coasts of America from the River Mackenzie to Turnagain Point.

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules

And on this half, toward the west, is the kingdom of Turkestan, that stretcheth him toward the west to the kingdom of Persia, and toward the septentrional to the kingdom of Khorasan. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

"And unless they have been able to double Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope," replied Shandon, "they must necessarily have rounded the septentrional coasts of America—that's what I call indisputable, doctor."

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules

Cow's milk could be obtained in very small quantities, but it was of evil flavour; butter, in the septentrional sense of the word, did not exist.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George

If the swastika and the septentrional set of ideas spread from one centre then we should expect to find them accompanied by traces of a common language.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia