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1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 287 By the 17th of April we were got pretty near into the latitude of Guam, and our course then lying along that parallel, our Northing and Southing consequently were but little, according as the Ship deviated from its direct course.

1730 A. Patoun Compl. Treat. Pract. Navigation vii. 160 The Ship has differ'd her Latitude, or made of Northing 29.57 Minutes.

1782 Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 340 The course we made good, therefore was W.N.W. which, on the distance run by noon next day, gave us about sixteen miles of northing.

1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) i. App. 12 The head of Lake Pepin is in 44° 58′ 8″ N. and we have made very little northing since.

1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 204 During the whole of that afternoon..we made but little Northing at all.

1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) viii. 133–134 We should have to make 300 miles of northing and 155° of easting if we still wished to keep our thermometer at 60°.

1964 A. Sharp Anc. Voyagers in Polynesia 19 On courses with a predominant northing or southing component..the problem of longitude still remained.

2001 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 21 July (Going out section) l5 We..wanted to save our ‘northing’ in case the southwesterly winds became too strong to allow us to continue straight west.