"Northwesterly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... largest West European nation; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... African coast. It was subsequently ascertained that they had been built by order of Colonel Mathews, the American Consul General at Tagier, as beacons for Boyton's guidance. A current setting to the westward was encountered, which drove them in a northwesterly direction and the wind increased to a gale with a heavy sea. In answer to a hail from the boat as to whether he had been attacked or needed anything, Boyton replied: ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton |
