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1703 J. Thornton Eng. Pilot III. i. iii. 5/2 From September you have East-South-easterly Wind under the Arabian Coast.

1754 in H. S. Webster Vital Rec. Pittston, Maine (1911) 376 The East Southeasterly side of said Pond.

1836 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 3 178 This channel runs in an east-south-easterly course five miles.

1870 Times 16 Nov. 6/4 The winds are moderate or light generally. In Norway they are east-south-easterly.

1921 R. L. Jack Northmost Austral. I. xxiii. 161 A distance of 27 miles by the windings, but not more than 10 in a direct east-south-easterly line.

1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millennium (1993) iii. 85 There's an impression of lineations in this east-southeasterly direction.

1819 E. B. O'Callaghan Documentary Hist. State N.-Y. I. xxii. 639 Bounded..north-easterly by the kill on which Gravesend mill is situated, East south-easterly by the same kill, and south-westerly by the Bay of the North River.

1879 B. S. Lyman Geol. Surv. Japan 218 From Ishibe our road went east-south-easterly three leagues to Minakuchi.

1907 List Lights & Fog Signals Atlantic & Gulf Coasts (U.S. Dept. Commerce & Labor) 217 Lying nearly 2 miles east-southeasterly of the light-station.

1997 R. A. Kurushin et al. Surface Rupture 1957 Gobi-Altay Earthquake 21/1 The average strike of the break in slope at the base of the mountainous terrain trends more east-southeasterly than farther east or west where they strike nearly east-west.