"Due north" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the time of the Observatory at Greenwich is adopted for general use. But this involves a departure from the principles by which time is locally determined, and hence, if these principles be not wrong, every clock in the United Kingdom, except those on a line due north and south from Greenwich, must of necessity be ...
— International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. • Various
... in astonishment, then due north at the sun, which was shining with a softer and less piercing light than usual, while the captain and his friend the doctor exchanged glances and looked amused at ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
... follow his red brudder he will lead him safe." We instantly signified our willingness to trust ourselves to his guidance, and, shouldering our blankets and guns, we left our camp, and followed our guide due north at a rapid gait. For several miles we strode through the thick woods, every moment scratching our faces and tearing our clothing, with the thick tangled brush through which we had to pass, but considering this of minor importance we hurried on in silence, save ...
— The Path of Duty, and Other Stories • H. S. Caswell
... four hundred miles due north from Salt Lake City to Montana. The low canvas-covered Concord hack, in which we travel, is constructed with an eye rather to safety than comfort, and, like a city omnibus, is never full. Still, our passengers look upon even their discomforts as a joke. They are most of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... were not an unusual sight, for not fifty miles east was the northern track of the great ocean steamers—a track which they were gradually approaching as they made their berths. But a steamer smudge over the port quarter, with the Lass's bow headed due north, was an ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
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