Cardinal-points synonyms

The city is in great part laid out in rectangular squares, the streets running nearly with the cardinal points of the compass.

The city is built with its streets running between the cardinal points of the compass and crossing each other at right angles.

Alongside these fanciful conceptions there existed fatl~ sore sober view, according to which the earth was a long lege, l plain, and the sky an iron roof supported by the tops of thai intains or by four pillars TflJ at the cardinal points.

The city is laid out with almost unbroken regularity and is compactly built - the streets running nearly with the cardinal points of the compass.

Everything was changed when by the conquests of Alexander (334-323) it suddenly rose to material supremacy in all the East as far as India, and when cities of Greek speech and constitution were planted by the might of kings at all the cardinal points of intercourse within those lands.