Equinoxial

There are moments when only the strangely complex simplicity of Joseph Roth will do and as I scoured the shelves I settled on Job The Story of a Simple Man (translated with huge sensitivity by Dorothy Thompson) for my post-equinoxial and pre-solsticial read. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The whole republic, according to Humboldt, occupies a space of 75,830 square leagues, of twenty to an equinoxial degree; on which there are to be found every inequality of surface, and every variety of soil and climate, the two last of which are dependent in most cases on the former. ❋ Various (N/A)

Presently the ocean beginning to swell by the action of the northwest wind upon it, and also by the influence of the equinoxial constellation -- at which season the sea swells most -- the troops were miserably harassed and driven about. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)

In the low and humid places of the equinoxial zone, even when the gramineous plants and reeds present the aspect of a meadow, of turf, a rich decoration of the picture is usually wanting. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

In regard to the impossibility of passing the torrid zone, he himself stated that he had voyaged as far as Guinea under the equinoxial line, and had found that region not only traversable, but abounding in population, fruits, and pasturage. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Night approached, and was about to add darkness to our dangers: the equinoxial gales, in alliance with the Russians, increased in violence. ❋ Philippe-Paul S��gur (1826)

In fact, situated as the island is, in a temperate climate just without the tropic, and enjoying abundance of rain, there is scarcely any vegetable, with the exception of a few of the equinoxial plants, that may not be cultivated here. ❋ Sir John Barrow (1806)

We continued our course till the 29th, in the track of these islands, and being then ten degrees to the westward of their situation in the chart, without having seen any thing of them, I hauled to the northward, in order to cross the equinoxial, and afterwards shape my course for the ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

3* The ronftantly warmer temperature of the equinoxial feas appears to be the mediate caufe of this difference. ❋ Unknown (1812)