Also in the head of that sea of Galilee, toward the septentrion is a strong castle and an high that hight Saphor.
2
And therefore in the Septentrion, that is very north, is the land so cold, that no man may dwell there.
3
And on another side it stretcheth toward the Septentrion unto the sea of Caspian; and also toward the south unto the desert of Ind.
1
During this time Franklin, by an overland route, traversed the septentrional coasts of America from the River Mackenzie to Turnagain Point.
2
For that is at the north parts that men clepe the Septentrional where it is all only cold.
3
Oviedo (Historia General de las Indias) sometimes names this gulf the Arcipelago de La Tramontana, or the Arcipelago Septentrional-thenorthern archipelago.