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a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso Brief Summe Geogr. (1932) 7 When the sonne begynneth to ryse, from the furst poynt of Capricorne..toward aries..and from thence til he come to the furst poynt of Cancer which is the xj of Junio, dothe make 182 paraleles [Sp. paralelos].

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iii. f. 12^v A hundreth leaques westwarde without the paralelles of the Ilandes.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 123 Ther shalbe so many, as there are paralleles of latitude, whose nombre as I saide was .90.

1683 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 88 So the other Hemisphere [of Saturn] is very much incommoded by the shadow of the Ring, which..in some Parallels for several Years, occasions a continual Night by the interception of the Suns beams.

a1788 J. Ledyard in J. Sparke Mem. J. Ledyard (1828) v. 157 A canoe, driven..from the southern part of California, or the coast of New Galicia, the opposite parallel, would reach Owyhee in a direct course in half the time.

1824 J. Mackintosh Speech S. Amer. in Wks. (1846) III. 463 The prodigious varieties of its elevation exhibit in the same parallel of latitude all the climates and products of the globe.

1877 J. A. Allen Amer. Bisons 465 Along the 49th parallel they also pass north in summer and south in winter.

1900 G. Santayana Poetry & Relig. 261 As the parallels and meridians make a checker-board of the sea.

1993 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. (ed. 2) 207 The golf ball was a little spherical frob [sic] bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude.

1994 Chicago Tribune 15 Apr. i. 10/1 The U.S., Britain and France imposed a ‘no-fly’ zone for Iraqi aircraft between the 32nd and 36th parallels.