We were eager to escape from tents, where a fold of canvas, only, interposed to check the VERTIC beams of the sun in summer, and the chilling blasts of the south in winter.
"A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson"
Watkin Tench
Then as the lamp of heaven still higher rose From eastern skies a sultry tempest blows, The VERTIC sun as fiercely pour'd his ray, And beam'd around insufferable day.
"The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III)"
Philip Freneau