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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.

1724 J. Kelly Mod. Navigator's Compl. Tutor ii. i. 41 If a Ship sails East or West, she keepeth in the same Latitude, and makes no Northing or Southing.

1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation iii. iii. 235 I have made only 14 leagues southing, and 35 leagues easting.

1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 370/2 Then they sum up all the northings, and all the southings.

1803 Ld. Nelson 23 May in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 74 He would certainly make Southing with his Westing.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen ii. 37 After Adrianople I had made more southing than I knew for.

1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 178 We had always managed to make some Southing each day.

1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) viii. 134 From then till the second midnight we should have to make 240 miles of southing and 135° of easting.

1953 Mariner's Mirror 39 127 The difference in the distribution of certain species..might give the navigator some inkling of his northing or southing.

2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) vii. 243 The Beara Head was happy in its headway through the kindly sea, but its crew was not... The various personal wars, gone cold during the struggle to make southing, hotted up in the gentle weather.