Fifthly, being thus on land with your compasse, set all lands or islands in sight, draw the form with your paper and pensill, and estimate their distance.
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... forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; ...
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1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 165:However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon ... is of no slender antiquity ....
