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Cronian Sea
The north polar sea. Pliny says, “A Thule unius diei
navigatione mare concretum, a nonnullis cronium
appellatur. ” (Natural History, iv. 16.)
As when two polar winds blowing adverse
Upon the Cronian sea.
Milton: Paradise Lost,
x. 290.
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