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Updated: June 18, 2025
Then Capricorn, with half the form of beast, Breathes chill and piercing colds from his strong breast, And in a spacious circle takes his round; When him, while in the winter solstice bound, The sun has visited with constant light, He turns his course, and shorter makes the night. Not far from hence is seen
Among Spanish Americans no one was comparable to the marvelous man who had founded three great republics stretching from the Caribbean Sea to the Tropic of Capricorn. Hailed as the "Liberator" and the "Terror of Despots," he was also acclaimed by the people as the "Redeemer, the First-Born Son of the New World!"
'I am going to hang it up to these hooks, and there it will bide till he comes again. Lady Constantine took one end, and the tube was hung up against the whitewashed wall by strings that the old woman had tied round it. 'Here's all his equinoctial lines, and his topics of Capricorn, and I don't know what besides, Mrs. Martin continued, pointing to some charcoal scratches on the wall.
Near eleven o'clock in the morning, we cut the Tropic of Capricorn on the 37th meridian, passing well out from Cape Frio. Much to Ned Land's displeasure, Captain Nemo had no liking for the neighborhood of Brazil's populous shores, because he shot by with dizzying speed.
So that the following week saw us on the south side of the tropic of Capricorn, the south-east trade done, and the dirty weather and variable squalls, which nearly always precede the "westerlies," making our lives a burden to us. Here, however, we were better off than in an ordinary merchantman, where doldrums are enough to drive you mad.
Across the grey and misty flats other mountains rise mountains of a strange shape which suggests a peculiar and unusual geological formation. Although the day was cool and the southerly wind had a biting quality about it, yet the whole aspect of the world about me was intensely sub-tropical. In heavy sunlight it would seem part of the countries north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
In the last round, however, Schmidt landed his opponent a very nasty one under the chin, stretching him out lifeless and breaking his elbow; whereupon the prize was awarded him." To this joyous gem Capricorn has added a whole foison of annotations. He asks at the end: "Which was 'him'? Important."
Ptolemy endeavours to correct him, and places Prasum in latitude 15, 30 south; it is remarkable that the Prasum of Ptolemy is precisely at Mosambique, the last of the Arabian settlements in the following ages, and the Prasum of Marinus, if under the tropic of Capricorn, is the limit of the knowledge of the Arabians on this coast of Africa.
Cancer is the symbol of exalted rest within angelic realms; Capricorn the symbol of rest in dense matter.
Don't know the country from the crockery. I'll try her once more. Name the limits of the Tropic of Capricorn, and tell me where Asia Minor is located." "I have a brother that's one, sor; that's all I know about it." "One? One what?" "Didn't ye ask me afther the miners, sor? My brother Teddy works wid 'em."
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