s.s.w.

On the 21 april, all things being ready for our departure, I dispatched six men northwardly to the sources of the river; seven others set out for a mountain bearing s.s.w. and N.N.E., distant about thirty miles; and six others were sent in a southern direction.

Narrative of William H. Ashley 1918

At this present we got cleere of the S.reights, hauing coasted the S.uth shore, the land trending from hence S.W. by S. Noone the 30 s.s.w. 22 63

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584