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A19942	The vvorldes hydrographical discription Wherein is proued not onely by aucthoritie of writers, but also by late experience of trauellers and reasons of substantiall probabilitie. that the worlde in all his zones clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited, and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable ... whereby appeares that from England there is a short and speedie passage into the South Seas, to China, Molucca, Phillipina, and India, by northely nauigation ... Published by I. Dauis of Sandrudg by Dartmouth in the countie of Deuon. Gentleman. Anno 1595. May 27.	Davis, John, 1550?-1605.	1595 (1595)	STC 6372; ESTC S105205	22,123	50

the yse is rather the cause of this cold then the distempreture of the ayre Wherfore if in winter where is aboundance of yse snowe the ayre is so sufferable as that traueling and hunting may be exercised how much rather may wee iudge the seas to be Nauigable and that in the depest of winter where there is neither yse nor snow that may yeld any such damps or cold breathings to the anoiance of such as shall take these interprises in hand And therefore the Sommer in no sort to be feared but some curious witt may obiect that the naturall anoyance of cold is preuented by reason of the trauell of the body with other artific●all prouisions to defend the fury therof as als● the whot vapors which the earth may yeld ●hereof experience vrgeth confession but vpon the seas it cannot be sith it is a cold body subiect to yeld great dampes and cold brethinges most offensiue to nature To the which I answere in the vniuersall knowledge of all creatures that God the most glorious incomprehensible and euer being sole creatour of all thinges visible inuisible rationall irrationall momentory and eternall in his diuine prouidence hath made nothing vncommunicabl but hath giuen such order vnto all things whereby euery thing may be tollerable to the next the extremities of ellements consent with their next the ayre is grosse about the earth and water but thinn and hot about the fyre by this prouidence in nature the sea is very salt and salt sayth Plinie yeldeth the fatnes of oyle but oyle by a certayne natiue heate is of propertie agreable to fire the sea then being all of such qualitie by reason of the saltnes therof moueth and stirreth vp generatiue heate c. Whereby the sea hath a working force in the dissolution of yse for things of so great contrariety as heat and cold haue togeather no affinitye in coniunction but that the one must of necessirye auoyde the seas not being able by the ●andes of nature to step backe doth therefore cause the coldnesse of the ayre by reason of his naturall heate to giue place whereby extremities being auoyded the ayre must of necessitie remayne temperate for in nature the ayre is hote and moyst the colde then being but accidentall is the soner auoided and natures wrongs with ease redressed That vnder the Pole is the place of greatest dignitie REason teacheth vs and experience confirmeth the same that the Sun is the onely sufficient cause of heat through the whole world And therefore in such places where the Sunne hath longest continuance the ayre there rece●eth the greatest impression of heat as also in his absence it is in like fort aflicted with colde And as the heate in all clymates is indurable by the ●ternall ordinance of the creatour so likewise the cold is sufferable by his euerlasting decree for otherwise nature shoulde bee monstrous and his creation wast as it hath beene ydly affirmed by the moste Cosmographicall wryters distinguishing the sphere into fiue zones haue concluded three of them to be wast as vaynely created the buring Zone betweene the two tropikes and the two frozen Zones but experience hauing reprooued the grosenes of that errour it shall be needlesse to say farther therin For although in the burning Zone the sun beames are at such right angles as that by the actuall reuerberation thereof the lower reg●o● of the ayre is greatly by that reflexion warmed yet his equall absence breadeth such mitigacion as that there we find the ayre tolle●able and the countries pleasant and fruitfull being populus and well inhabited so likewise vnder the pole being the center of the supposed ●rozen Zone during the time that the Sunne is in the South signes which is from the thirteenth of September vnto the 10. of March it is there more cold then in any place of the world because the Sunne in all that time doth neuer appeare aboue the Horyzon but during the time that the Sunne is in the North signes which is from the tenth of march vnto the thirteenth of September he is in continuall view to all such as posses that place by which his continuall presence he worketh that notable effect as that therby all the force of frising is wholy redressed and vtterly taken away working then and there more actuall then in any other part of the world In which place their continuall day from the Sunne rising to the sunne setting is equall with twenty sixe wekes and fiue dayes after our rate and their night is equall with twenty fiue weekes and three dayes such as we haue so that our whole yeere is withthem but one night and one day a wonderfull difference from al the rest of the world and therefore no doubt but those people haue a wonderfull excellencie and an exceeding prorogatiue aboue all nations of the earth and this which is more to be noted In al other places of the world the absence and presence of the Sun is in equall proportion of time hauing as much night as day but vnder the Pole their artificiall day that is the continuall presence of the Sunne before he sett is nine of our naturall dayes or two hundreth 16. houres longer then is their night whereby it appeareth that they haue the life light and comfort of nature in a higher measure then all the nations of the earth How blessed then may we thinke this nation to be For they are in perpetuall light and neuer know what darkenesse meaneth by the benefit of twylight and full moones as the learned in Astronomy doe very well knowe whi●h people if they haue the notice of thei●●ternitie by the comfortable light of the Gospel then are they blessed and of all nations most blessed Why then doe we neglect the s●●rch of this excellent discouery agaynst which there can be nothing sayd to hinder the same Why doe we refu●e to see the dignity of Gods Creation sith it hath pleased his diuine maiestie to place vs the nerest neighbor therunto I know ther is no true englishman y ● can in conscience refuse to be a contribute● to procure this so great a hapines to his country whereby not onely the Prince and mightie men of the land shall be highly renowned but also the merchant tradesman and artificet mightily inrich●● And now as touching the last obiection that the want of skill in Na●igation with curious i●strumentes should be the hinderance or ouer throw of this action I holde that to bee so friuolous as not worth the answering for it is wel knowne that we haue globes in the most excellent perfection of arte and haue the vse of them in as exquisite sort as master Robert Hues in his book of the globes vse lately published hath at large made knowne and for Horizontall paradoxall and great circle sayling I am my selfe a witnesse in the behalfe of many that we are not ignorant of them as lately I haue made knowne in a briefe treatis of Nauigacion naming it the

leagues and that is the farthest distance that they haue euer bin seene from the shore The other kind is called flake yse blue very heard and thinne not aboue three fadomes thick at the farthest and this kinde of yse bordreth close vpon the shore And as the nature of heate with apt vessels deuideth the pure spirit from his grosse partes by the coning practise of distillation so doth the colde in these regions deuide and congeale the fresh water from the salt nere such shores where by the aboundance of freshe riuers the saltnes of the sea is mittigated and not else where for all yse in generall being dissolued is very fresh water so that by the experience of all that haue euer trauelled towardes the North it is well knowne that the sea neuer fryseth but wee know that the sea dissolueth this yse with great speede for in twentie foure houres I haue seene an ylande of yse turne vp and downe as the common phrase is because it hath melted so fast vnder water that the heauior parte hath beene vpwarde which hath beene the cause of his so turning for the heuiest part of all things swiming is by nature downwards and therfore sith the sea is by his heate of power to dissolue yse it is greatly against reason that the same should be frozen so that the congealation of the seas can bée no hinderance to the execution of this passage contrary to the former obiection by late experience reprooued yet if experience wanted in ordenary reason men should not suppose nature to bee monstrous for if all such yse and snowe as congealeth and descendeth in the winter did not by natures benefit dissolue in the sommer but that the cold were more actual thē the heate that difference of inequallitie bee it neuer so little would by time bread natures ouerthrowe for if the one thousand parte of the yse which in winter is congealed did the next Sommer remayne vndissolued that continual diffrence sithins the worldes creation would not onely haue conuerted all those North seas into yse but would also by continuall accesse of snow haue extended himselfe aboue all the ayers regions by which reason all such exalations as should be drawn from the earth and seas within the temperate zones and by windes driuen into these sti●fe regions that moysture was no more to bee hoped for that by dissolution it should haue any returne so that by time the world should be left waterlesse And therefore how ridiculus this imagination of the seas frysing is I refer to the worlds generall opinion That the ayre in colde regions is tollerable ANd now for a full answere of all obiections if the ayre bee prooued tollerable then this most excellent and commodious passage is without al contradiction to be perfourmed And that the ayre is tollerable as well in the winter as in the Sommer is thus prooued The inhabitantes of Moscouia Lapland Swethland Norway and Tartaria omit not to trauel for their commodity in the deepest of winter passing by sleades ouer the yse and congealed snowe being made very slipperie and compact like yse by reason of much wearing and trading hauing the vse of a kind of stag by them called Reen to drawe those their sleades Groynland by me lately named Desolation is likewise inhabited by a people of good stature and tractable conditions it also mayntayneth diuers kinde of foules and beastes as deers foxes hares and other beastes which I haue their seene but knowe not their names and these must trauell for their food in winter and therefore the ayre is not intollerable in the extremest nature of coldnes and for the quality thereof in Sommer by my owne experience I knowe that vpon the shore it is as hot there as it is at the ylls of cape de Verde in which place there is such aboundance of moskeetes a kind of gnat that is in India very offensiue and in great quantitie as that we were strong with them like lepers not beeing able to haue quiet being vpon the shore And vnder the clyfe in the pooles ●●to which the streames aryse not I haue found salt in great plenty as why●e as the salt of May● cougeled ●rō the salt water which y e spring tids bring into those poles which could not be but by the benefit of a notable heat of which f●le I brought with me and gaue to master Secretory Walsingham and to master Sanderson as a rare thing to be found in those parts and farther the same was of an extraordenary saltnes And therefore it is an idle dreame that the ayre should there be insufferable for our selues haue with the water of those seas made salt because we desired to know whether the benifit of the sunne were the cause of this coagulation what better confirmation then can there be then this Island is likewise inhabited and yeldeth haukes in great store as falcons Ierfalco●s lanardes and sparrow haukes rauens crowes beares hares and foxes with horses and other kinde of cattell vpon which coast in August and September the yse is vtterly dissolued all which the premises are certainly verified by such as vse trade thither from Lubec Hambro Amsterdam England yerely then why should wee dread this fayned distempreture From cold regions come our most costly fures as sables beeing estemed for a principall ornament and the beastes that yeld vs those furrs are chiefely hunted in the winter how grieuous then shall we thinke the winter to be or howe insu●●erable the ayre where this little tender beast liueth so well and where the hunters may search the denn●s and hauntes of such beastes through the woods and snow Vpsaliensi● affirmeth that he hath felt the Sommer nights in gotland scarcely tollerable for heate whereas in rome hee hath fel● them cold The mountaynes of Norway and Swethland are fruitefull of metalls in which siluer a●d copper are con●oct and molten in veines which may scarcely bee done with fornaces by which reason also the vapors and hot exhalations pearcing the earth and the waters and through both those natures breathing forth into the ayre tempereth the quantitie thereof making it tollerable as wytt●es the huge bigues of whales in those seas with the strength of body and long life of such beastes as liue one the land which thing could not bee except all thinges were there comodiously nourished by the benefit of the heauen and the ayre for nothing that in time of increase is hindred by any iniury or that is euill seed all the time it liueth can prosper well Also it is a thing vndoubtedly knowne by experience that vpon the coastes of newfounde land at such time as the yse remayneth vndissolued vpon those shores the wind being esterly comming from the seas causeth very sharpe colde and yet the same is sufferable but comming from the shore yt presently yeldeth ●eat abōndātly according to y e true nature of the scituatiō of y ● place wherby it pl●●nely appeareth that the very breth of