1654 R. Blake Let. 4–14 Feb. (1937) (modernized text) 251 And upon set eastwardly and northwardly winds to close into the harbour as with safety they may.

1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 251 These northwardly winds I take to have been the north-east wind in the offing.

1676 A. Sammes Antiq. Anc. Brit. i. 3 The truest Calculation is, That the most Southwardly parts lie in the Latitude of 50 degrees and 6 minutes..and the most Northwardly, in 60 degrees 30 minutes.

1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 75 The most Northwardly part is Rag-Point.

1839 J. H. Ingraham Captain Kyd II. ii. iv. 156 The elder..suddenly fixed his eyes in a northwardly direction.

1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 161 A slowly moving northwardly current.

1881 Science 26 Mar. 140/2 The average northwardly current of the warm water through the Strait is probably not greater than 2 miles per hour.

2001 Times of India (Nexis) 2 Feb. This gradual northwardly movement of the huge plate has caused a distortion of the Asian continent.

1619 F. Yate Voy. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1933) III. 112 The wind came northwardly.

1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. Observ. 51 He first sail'd northwardly as far as Elis.

1784 T. Jefferson Public Papers 376 Any territory Northwardly of the 47^th degree shall make part of the state—below.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 38 Proceeding northwardly through the remainder of East Allington.

1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 18 Travelling northwardly from this..plain.

1901 E. Arnold Voy. Ithobal 88 That self-same Sun Blazed northwardly..And rose in the northern east.

1948 Evolution 2 158/2 This sea arm had diminished to a narrow trough extending northwardly through eastern New Mexico and Colorado.

1996 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 23 678/1 The southern base and northwardly extending archipelago can be regarded as a generalized track in Croizat's sense.