This causes a greater deviation of the ground trace from a great-circle arc due to the increased effect of Earth's rotation.

In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.

She wrote them a letter.

[I]t was as much apprehension as crapula that had distracted him into admitting that the anonymous letter-writer had spoken some truth.