PACIFIC
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 23
The name given by Magalhaens, the first European who traversed it, to the ocean which extends between America on the east and Asia and Australia on the west, in consequence of his enjoying fair weather on entering it, after having previously experienced a track of bad weather and tempestuous gales in the straits which bear his name. The Pacific is the greatest expanse of wa ter on the globe. PACIFICATIOX, [s. 885]
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