Crossword-Solution: DESERTAS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DESERTAS | anagram | ASSERTED, ESTRADES, SEDATERS |
We have 1 clue for the answer “DESERTAS”
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| MADEIRA island neighbor/neighbour | 2 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMAEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DESERTAS (5)
The length of a longitudinal degree along the parallel of thirty-four, in which it is reiterated they first made land, and between which and the parallel of thirty- two they had sailed from the Desertas, is calculated and found to be fifty-two miles, and the whole number of degrees which they had traversed across the ocean between those parallels, being twelve hundred leagues, or forty-eight hundred miles, is by simple division made ninety-two.
Had they been separated ever since the Miocene period, like Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas, constituting the small Madeiran Archipelago, we might have expected to discover a difference in the species of land-shells, not only when Ireland was compared to England, but when different islands of the Hebrides were contrasted one with another, and each of them with England.
Its origin has been found in the orchilla still growing upon the Desertas; but this again appears unlikely enough.
The sail, however, gives fine views of the 'Deserters' (_Desertas_), beginning with the 'Ship Rock,' a stack or needle mistaken in fogs for a craft under sail.
King John had died on August 14, 1433 (the anniversary of Aljubarrota), and on September 26th, of the same year, by a charter given from Cintra, King Edward granted the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo, with the Desertas, to Henry as Grand Master of the Order of Christ.