near about

Summary. The general result of sections III., IV., V. is that Indian glaciers are near about as large as they have been since the deposition of the crumpled Tertiary beds which are called "Nahuns" and "Shivaliks." "The glacial period" is dated "Postpliocene." The Indian ground traversed extends from Ceylon to Kangra, near lat. 32° N., and includes Lower Himalayan slopes between the river Ravee, lat. 32° N., and Darjeeling in lat. 27° 28′ near long. 90° E.

1879 [1877 June 20], J.F. Campbell, “8. Glacial periods”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 35, number 137, Geological Society of London, page 105

An. 1449. Gonsalo Vello discovered the islands called Azores, or of Hawks, because many of those birds were seen about them. They are eight in number, viz. S. Michael, S. Mary, Jesus or Tercera, Graciosa, Pico, Fayal, Flores, and Corvo. They are near about the latitude of Lisbon. In the last of them was found the statue of a man on horseback with a cloak, but no hat, his left hand on the horse's mane, the right pointing to the west, and some characters carved on the rock under it, but not understood.

1823 [1704], The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time. (1704.). Prefixed to Churchill's Collection of Voyages, page 388

This extract is taken from a most interesting Relation of the Commodities of Nova Hispania, and the Manners of the Inhabitants, written at the special request of Richard Hakluyt, by Henry Hawks, who had lived five years as a merchant in Mexico. ¶ Mexico is a great city: it hath more than fifty thousand households, whereof there are not past five or six thousand houses of Spaniards; all the others are people of the country, which live under the Spaniards' laws. […] Round about the town there are very many gardens and orchards of the fruits of the country, marvellous fair, where the people have great recreation. ¶ There are near about this city of Mexico many rivers and standing waters, which have in them a monstrous kind of fish, which is marvellous ravening, and a great devourer of men and cattle. He is wont to sleep upon the dry land many times, and if there come in the meantime any man or beast and wake or disquiet him, he speedeth well if he get from him. He is like unto a serpent, saving that he doth not fly, neither hath he wings. ¶ There is west out of Mexico a port town which is on the South Sea, called Puerto de Acapulco, whereat there are ships which they have ordinarily for the navigation of China, which they have newly found. This port is threescore leagues from Mexico.

1906 [1625], Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas, quoting Henry Hawks, “The City of Mexico in 1570”, in E. E. Speight, editor, The Romance of the Merchant Venturers, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 66-68