Another similar light then appeared in the south-east, and although it was not yet connected with the first, it also seemed to be extending itself laterally, and in a moment the two luminous curtains united, forming a great semicircular band of pale, bluish-white radiance around the heavens, like a celestial equator belting a vast universe of stars.

For the joy of his eyes he reserved those distinguished, rare blooms which had been brought from distant lands and whose lives were sustained by artful devices under artificial equators.

This line at 160° W. Long, from Greenwich is 4° below the geographical equator; at 80° it is about 6° north, sweeping along the coast of New Granada; at 20° it comes down and touches the equator; at 40° E. Long., it crosses the Red Sea about 16° north of the equator, and at 120° it falls at Borneo, several degrees below it;and the points of the greatest heat, in this line, are in Abyssinia, nearer the tropic of Cancer than to the equator.

equidistance^, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff; intermediate &c 228.

ACLINIC LINE, the magnetic equator, along which the needle always remains horizontal.