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Deucaledon Ocean en · PROPN

Etymology

Calque of Latin Ōceanus Deucalēdonius.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A historical ocean which comprises roughly the northernmost parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
   • THIS Province calld in Latin Ultonia, in Iriſh Guilly; by the Welſh Ultwa, and by the Engliſh, Ulſter, is bounded on the Eaſt with the Iriſh Sea; on the Weſt with the Weſtern Ocean; on the North with the Deucaledon''' Ocean; on the South with the Province of Leinſter, and on the South-weſt with the Province of Connaught, being of a round form. 1748, [Guy] Miege, The Present State of Great Britain, and Ireland, 11 edition, London: J. Brotherton, G. Strahan, R. Ware, J. Clarke, C. Hitch, and J. Hodges, page 441:
   • The Parish of Reay in the shire of Cathness hath to the [North] the great Deucaledon Ocean, to the East the Parish of Thurso. To S. East parish of Haukrig to the south the parish of Kildonan in the shire of Sutherland. To the W. and N. West the parish of Far. 1726 June 14, Walter MacFarlane, “Description: Parish of Reay in Cathness”, in Arthur Mitchell, editor, Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland Made by Walter MacFarlane (Publications of the Scottish History Society), volume 1, number LI, Edinburg: Scottish History Society, published 14 April 1906, page 181:
   • Southerne bounds towards England are the Rivers Tweede and Solwey, on the North is the Deucaledon Ocean, on the West the Irish, on the East the German, other parts the Ocean and the German Sea doe compasse. 1635, Gerhard Mercator, translated by W. S. generosus, & Coll. Regin. Oxoniæ., Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas Containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world.:

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