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country_n	air_n	pleasant_a	zone_n	12	3	11.6969	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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