Magellann.

1596 J. Harington Anat. Metamorph. Aiax Prol. sig. Bi^v Crossing both the Tropicks..he came by Magellanes, swearing he found no straights there.

a1631 J. Donne Hymn to God in Poems (1635) 387 Anyan, and Magellan, and Gibraltare, All streights, and none but streights are wayes to them.

1786 R. Burns Poems 210 Or whare wild-meeting oceans boil Besouth Magellan.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 687 The low Sun To recompence his distance, in thir sight Had rounded still th'Horizon, and not known Or East or West, which had forbid the Snow From cold Estotiland, and South as farr Beneath Magellan . View more context for this quotation

1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 1289 Drimys winteri, a medicinal tree, a native of Magellan.

1875 Proc. Zool. Soc. 44 The Huemul is found in the Andes on either side from Magellan to near Santiago.

a1769 G. Robertson Disc. Tahiti (1948) 46 Here the Pepper Tree grows to Great perfection which produces the Winter or Magellan Bark.

1615 T. Roe Jrnl. 3 May in Embassy to Court Great Mogul (1899) I. 5 The Magillan cloudes first appeare, and they keepe their course with the Polar Starre about the Pole.

1639 E. Chilmead tr. R. Hues Learned Treat. Globes ii. vii. 115 Our Mariners use to call them Magellanes Clouds.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Magellan's Clouds, two small Clouds of the same colour with Via Lactea, not far distant from the South Pole.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 175 The next Day we discover'd the Magellan Clouds... These Clouds are always seen in the same Degree, and in the same orbicular Form.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 9 The Magellan Clouds consist of three small nebulæ in the southern part of the heavens.

1884 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 13 293 The two black spaces seen in the milky way (the absence of nebulæ near Magellan's cloud) are two old blackfellows.

1973 Current Anthropol. 14 420/1 Monod's study..notes the early use of Magellan Clouds as a navigational aid.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Magellan Jacket, a name given to a watch-coat with a hood, worn in high latitudes.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ix. i. 691 This Southern halfe of America hath also, at the Magellane Straits, contracted.

1670 J. Ogilby America iii. v. 474 (margin) Description of the Magellan Straights.

1838 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 104 Those islands, situated opposite the eastern entrance of Magellan's Straits, appear to have been first discovered by the British.

1874 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 41 The northern Magellan Strait was found at last, and Queen Elizabeth at once proclaimed her purpose to build upon its entrance a fort to protect her right to this, her exclusive route, from all comers and rivals whatsoever.

1957 Internat. Affairs 33 401 Even Magellan's Strait is described as ‘fog bound’, much to my surprise after living for many years on its shores and seeing it in all its moods.

1985 Science 31 May 1110/3 Pollen and plant macrofossil records..are known from..the Nothofagus rainforest environment in the western Magellan Strait.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 1 The Magellanian Clouds.

1902 Science 18 July 111/2 From the Magellanian beds 19 species are described.

1945 C. J. F. Skottsberg in F. Verdoorn et al. Plants & Plant Sci. Lat. Amer. 316/1 Nearly all the non-endemic species..belong to the Magellanian flora; some do not, however, reach as far south as West Patagonia or Fuegia. These Magellanian species belong to the rain forests, the bogs, and the coast and mountain heaths.

1981 Systematic Zool. 30 503/1 The four chunks [of an ancient Pacifica continent] then drifted away from each other: New Zealand + Campbell Plateau southwesterly.., Magellanian + Peruvian Pacifica southeasterly colliding with South America, [etc.].