ribs of one side to another and decuple unto his profundity that is a direct line between the breast bone and the spine Againe they receive not these conditions with any assurance or stability from our selves for the relative foundations and points of denomination are not fixed and certaine but variously designed according to imagination The Philosopher accounts that East from whence the heavens begin their motion The Astronomer regarding the South and Meridian Sun calls that the dextrous part of heaven which respecteth his right hand and that is the West Poets respecting the West assign the name of right unto the North which regardeth their right handâ— and so must that of Ovid be explaned utque duae dextrâ zâ—nae totidemque sinistrâ But Augurs or Southsayers turning their face to the East did make the right in the South which was also observed by the Hebrews and Chaldaeans Now if we name the quarters of heaven respectively unto our sides it will be no certaine or invariable denomination for if we call that the right side of heaven which is seated Easterly unto us when we regard the meridian Sun the inhabitants beyond the equator and Southerne Tropick when they face us regarding the meridian will contrarily definâ— it for unto them the opposite part of heaven will respect the left and the Sun arise to their right And thus have we at large declared that although the right be most commonly used yet hath it no regular or certaine root in nature Since it is most confirmable from other animalls Since in children it seemeâ— either indifferent or more favourable in the other but more reasonable for uniformity in action that men accustome unto one Since the grounds and reasons urged for it doe no way support it Since if there be a right and stronger side in nature yet may we mistake in its denomination calling that the right which is the lâ—ft and the left which is the right Since some have one right some both some neither and lastly Since these affections in man are not only fallible in relation unto one another but made also in reference unto the heavens they being not capable of these conditions in themselves nor with any certainty from us nor we from them againe And therefore what admission we owe unto many conceptions concerning right and left requireth circumspection that is how far wee ought to relye upon the remedy of Kiramides that is the left â—ye of an Hedgehog fryed in oyle to procure sleep and thâ— right foot of a frog in a Deers skin for the gowt or that to dream of the losse of righâ— or left tooth presageth the death of male or female kindred according to the doctrine of Metrodorus what verity there is in that numerall conceit in the laterall division of man by even and odde ascribing the odde unto the right side and even unto the left and so by parity or imparity of letters in mens names determine misfortunes on either side of their bodyes by which account in Greek numeration Hâ—phaestus or Vulcane was lame in the right foot and Anniball lost his right eye And lastly what substance there is in that Auspiciall principle and fundamentall doctrine of Ariolation that the left hand is ominous and that good things do passe sinistrously upon us because the left hand of man respected the right hand of the Gods which handed their favours unto us CHAP. VI. Of Swimming THat men swim naturally if not disturbed by feare that men being drowned and sunke doe float the ninth day when their gall breaketh that women drowned swim prone but men supine or upon their backâ— are popular affirmations whereto we cannot assent And first that man should swim naturally because we observe it is no lesson unto others we cannot well conclude for other animalls swim in the same manner as they goe and need no other way of motion for natation in the water then for progression upon the land and this is true whether they move per latera that is two legs of one side together which is Tollutation or ambling or per diametrum which is most generall lifting one foot before and the crosse foot behinde which is succussation or trotting or whether per fronâ—em or quadratum as Scaliger tearmes it upon a square base of the legs of both sides moving together as frogs and salient animalls which is properly called leaping for by these motions they are able to support and impell themselves in the water without addition or alteration in the stroake of their legs or position of their bodies But with man it is performed otherwise for in regard of site he alters his naturall posture and swimmeth pronâ— whereas hee walketh â—rect againe in progression the armes move parallell to the legs and thâ— armes and legs unto each other but in natation they intersect an make all sorts of Angles and lastly in progressive motion the armes and legs doe move successively but in natation both together all which aptly to performe and so as to support and advance the body is a point of art and such as some in their young and docile yeares could never attaine But although it be acquired by art yet is there somewhat more of nature in it then we observe in other habits nor will it strictly fall under that definition for once obtained it is not to be removed nor is there any who from disuse did ever yet forget it Secondly that persons drowned arise and â—loat the ninth day when their gall breaketh is a questionable determination both in the time and cause for the time of â—loating it is uncertain according to the time of putrefaction which will retard or accelerate according to the subject and season of the year for as we have observed cats and mice will arise unequally and at different times though drowned at the same such as are fatted doe commonly float soonest for their bodies soonest ferment and that substance approacheth nearest unto ayre and this is one of Aristotles reasons why dead Eâ—les will not â—loat because saith he they have but slender bellies and little fat As for the cause it is not so reasonably imputed unto the breaking of the gall as the putrefaction of the body whereby the unnaturall heat prevailing the putrifying parts do suffer a turgescence and inâ—lation and becomming airy and spumous affect to approach the ayre and ascend unto the surface of the matter and this is also evidenced in egges wherof the sound ones sink such as are addled swim as do also those which are tearmed hypenemia or wind-egges and this is also a way to separate seeds whereof such as are corrupted and sterill swim and this agreeth not only unto the seed of plants lockt up and capsulated in their husks but also unto the sperme and seminall humor of man for such a passage hath Aristotle upon the Inquisition and test of its fertility That the breaking of the gall is not the cause hereof experience hath informed
if we shall fall into apprehension that it was lesse inhabited because it is said in the sixt of Genesis about 120. yeares before the Flood and it came to passe that when men began to multiply upon the face of the earth Beside that this may be onely meant of the race of Cain it will not import they were not multiplyed before but that they were at that time plentifully encreased for so is the same word used in other parts of Scripture And so is it afterward in the 9. Chap. said that Noah began to be an husbandman that is he was so or earnestly performed the Acts thereof so it is said of our Saviour that he began to cast them out that bought and sold in the Temple that is he actually cast them out or with alacrity effected it And thus have I declared my private and probable conceptions in the enquiry of this truth but the certainty hereof let the Arithmeticke of the last day determine and therefore expect no further beliefe then probability and reason induce onely desire men would not swallow dubiosiâ—ies for certainties and receive as principles points mainly controvertible for we are to adhere unto things doubtfull in a dubious and opinative way it being reasonable for every man to vary his opinion according to the variance of his reason and to affirme one day what he denyed another wherein although at last we misse of truth wee dye notwithstanding in harmelesse and inoffensive errors because we adhere unto that whereunto the examen of our reasons and honest enquiries induce us CHAP. VII Of East and West THe next shall be of East and West that is the proprieties and conditions ascribed unto Regions respectively unto those situations which hath been the obvious conception of Philosophers and Geographers magnifying the condition of India and the Easterne Countries above the setting and occidentall Climates some ascribing hereto the generation of gold pretious stones and spices others the civility and naturall endowments of men conceiving the bodies of this situation to receive a speciall impression from the first salutes of the Sunne and some appropriate influence from his ascendent and orientall radiations But these proprieties affixed unto bodies upon considerations deduced from East West or those observable points of the sphere how specious and plausible soever will not upon enquiry bee justified from such foundations For to speake strictly theâ—e is no East and West in nature nor are those absolute and invariable but respective and mutable points according unto different longitudes or distant parts of habitation whereby they suffer many and considerable variations For first unto some the same part will be East oâ— West in respect of one another that is unto such as inhabit the same parallel or differently dwel fâ—om East to West Thus as unto Spaine Italy lyeth East unto Italy Greece unto Greece Peâ—sia unto Persia China so again unto the Country of China Persia lyeth West unto Persia Greece unto Greece Italy and unto Italy Spaine so that the same Country is sometimes East and sometimes West and Persia though East unto Greece yet is it West unto China Uâ—to other habitations the same poinâ— will be both East and West as unto those that are Antipodes or seated in points of the Globe diameâ—â—ically opposed so the Americans are Antipodall unto the Indians and some part of India is both East and West unto America according as it shall be regarded from one side or the other to the right or to the left and setting out from any middle point either by East or West the distance unto the place intended is equall and in the same space of time in nature also performable To a third that have the Poles for their vertex or dwell in the position of a paâ—allell sphere there will be neither Eâ—st nor West at least the greatest part of the year for if as the name Orientall implyeth they shall account that part to be Eâ—st where ever the Sunne ariseth or that West where the Sunne is occidentall or setteth almost halfe the yeare they have neither the one nor the other for halfe the yeare it is below their Horizon and the other halfe it is continually above it and circling round about them intersecteth not the Horizon nor leaveth any part for this compuâ—e And if which will at first seem very reasonable that part should be tearmed the Easterne point where the Sunne at the Aequinox and but once in the yeare ariseth yet will this also disturbe the Cardinall accounts nor will it with propriety admit that appellation For that surely cannot be accounted East which hath the South on both sides which notwithstanding this position must have for if unto such as live under the pole that be only North which is above them that must be Southerly which is below them which is all the other portion of the Globe beside that part possessed by them And thus these points of East and West being not absolute in any respective in some and not at all relating unto others we cannot hereon establish so generall considerations nor reasonably erect such immutable assertions upon so unstable foundations Now the ground that begat or promoted this conceit was first a mistake in the apprehension of East and West considering thereof as of the North and South and computing by these as invariably as by the other but herein upon second thoughts there is a great disparity For the North and Southerne pole are the invariable termes of that Axis whereon the heavens doe move and are therefore incommunicable and fixed points whereof the one is not apprehensible in the other bâ—t with the East and West it is quite otherwise for the revolution of thâ— Orbes being made upon the poles of North and South all other points about the Axis are mutable and wheresoever therein the Eâ—st point be determined by suâ—cession of parts in one revolution every point bâ—commeth East and so if where the Sunne ariseth that part be â—earmed East every habitation differing in longitude will have this point also different in as much as the Sunne successively ariseth unto every one The second ground although it depend upon the former approacheth nearer the effect and that is the efficacie of the Sunne set out and divided according to priority of assent whereby his inâ—luence is conceived more favourable unto one Country then another and to felicitate India more then any after But hereby we cannot avoid absurdities and such as infer effects controulable by our senses For first by the same reason that we affirm the Indian richer then the American the American will also be more plentifull then the Indian and England or Spaine more fruitfull then Hispaniola or golden Castile in as much as the Sunne ariseth unto the one sooner then the other and so accountably unto any Nation subjected unto the same parallell or with a considerable diversity of longitude from each other Secondly an unsufferable absurdity will ensue for thereby
towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed So is it expressed in the prayer of Solomon what prayer or supplication soever be made by any man which shall spread forth his hands towards this house if thy people go out to battaile and shall pray unto the Lord towards the City which thou hast chosen and toward the house which I have chosen to build for thy Name then heare thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication and maintaine their cause Now the observation hereof unto the Jews that are dispersed Westward and such as most converse with us directeth their regard unto the East But the words of Solomon are applyable unto all quarters of heaven and by the Jews of the East and South must be regarded in a contrary position So Daniel in Babylon looking toward Jerusalem had his face toward the West So the Jews in their owne Land looked upon it from all quarters For the Tribe of Judah beheld it to the North Manasses Zâ—bulon and Napâ—thali unto the South Ruben and Gad unto the West onely the Tribe of Dan regarded it directly or to the due East and so when it is said Luke 12. when you see a cloud rise out of the West you say there commeth a showre and so it is the observation was respective unto Judea nor is this a reasonable illation in all other 〈◊〉 whatsoever For the Sea lay West unto that Country and the winds brought raine from that quarter But this consideration cannot be transferred unto India or China which have a vast Sea Eastward and a vaster Continent toward the West So likewise when it is said by Job in the vulgar Translation Gold commeth out of the North is this a reasonable inducement unto us and many other Countries from some pâ—rticular mines septentrionall unto his situation to search after that meâ—all in cold and Northerne regions which wee most plentifully discover in hot and Southerne habitations For the Mahometans as they partake with all Religions in something so they imitate the Jew in this For in their observed gestures they hold a regard unto Mecha and Medina Talnâ—bi two Cities in Arabia faelix where their Prophet was borne and buried whither they performe their pilgrimages and from whence they expect he should returne againe And therefore they direct their faces unto these parts which unto the Mahometans of Barbary and Aegypt lye Eâ—st and are in some point thereof unto many other parts of Turkey wherein notwithstanding there is no Orientall respect for wiâ—h the same devotion on the other side they regard these parts toward the West and so with variety wheresoever they are seated conforming unto the ground of their conception Fourthly whereas in the ordering of the Campe of Israel the East quarter is appointed unto the noblest Tribe that is the Tribe of Judah according to the command of God Numb 2. In the East-side toward the rising of the Sunne shall the Standard of the Tribe of Judah pitch it doth not peculiarly extoll that point for herein the East is not to bee taken strictly but as it signifieth or implyeth the formost place for Judah had the Van and many Countries through which they passed were seated Eâ—sterly unto them Thus much is implyed by the Originall and expressed by Translations which strictly conforme thereto So Tremellius and Junius Castra habentium ab anteriore parte Orientem versus vexillum esto castrorum Iudae so hath R. Solomon Jarchi expounded it the foremost or before is the Eâ—st quarter and the West is called behind And upon this Interpretation may all be salved that is alleageable against it For if the Tribe of Judah were to pitch before the Tabernacle at the East and yet to march first as is commanded Numb 10. there must ensue a disorder in the Campe nor could they conveniently observe the â—xecution thereof For when they set out from Mount Sinah where the Command was delivered they made Northward unto Rithmah from Rissah unto Ezionbeber about fourteen stations they marched South From Almon Diblathaim thâ—ough the mountaines of Yabarim and plaines of Moab towards Jordan the face of their march was West So that if Judah were strictly to pitch in the Eâ—st of the Tabernacle every night he encamped in the Reare And if as some conceive the whole Campe could not be lesse then twelve miles long it had been preposterous for him to have marched foremost or set out first who was most remote from the place to be approached Fifthly that Learning Civility and Arts had their beginning in the East it is not imputable â—ither to the action of the Sunne or its Orientality but of the first plantation of Man in those parts which unto Europe doe carry the respect of East for on the mountaines of Ararat that is part of the hill Taurus between the East-Indies and Scythia as Sir W. Ralegh accounts it the Arke of Noah rested from the East they travelled that built the Tower of Babell from thence they were dispersed and successively enlarged and learning good Arts and all Civility communicated The progression whereof was very sensible and if we consider the distance of time between the confusion of Babell and the civility of many parts now eminent therein it travelled late and slowly into our quarters for notwithstanding the learning of Bardes and Dâ—uides of elder times he that shall peruse that worke of Tacitus de moribus Germanorum may easily discerne how little civility two thousand years had wrought upon that Nation the like he may observe concerning our selves from the same Author in the life of Agricola and more directly from Strabo who to the dishonour of our Predecessours and the disparagement of those that glory in the Antiquity of their Ancestors affirmeth the Britans were so simple that though they abounded in Milke they had not the Artifice of Cheese Lastly that the Globe it selfe is by Cosmographers divided into East and West accounting from the first Meridian it doth not establish this conceit for that division is not naturally founded but artificially set downe and by agreement as the aptest termes to define or commensurate the longitude of places Thus the ancient Cosmographers doe place the division of the Eâ—st and Westerne Hemisphere that is the first terme of longitude in the Canary or fortunate Islands conceiving these parts the extreamest habitations Westward But the Modernes have altered that terme and translated it unto the Azores or Michaels Islands and that upon a plausible conceit of the small or insensible variation of the compasse in those parts wherein neverthelesse and though upon second invention they proceed upon a common and no appropriate foundation for even in that Meridian farther North or South the compasse observably varieth and there are also other places wherein it varieth not as Alphonso and Rodoriges de Lago will have it about Capo de las Agullas in Africa as Maurolycus affirmeth in the shore of Peloponesus in Europe and
nothing diffused from the Testicles an Horse or Bull may generate after castration that is from the stock and remainder of seminall matter already prepared and stored up in the Prostates or glandules of generation Thirdly although wee should concede a right and left in Nature yet in this common and received account we may aberre from the proper acception mistaking one side for another calling that in man and other animals the right which is the left and that the left which is the right and that in some things right and left which is not properly either For first the right and left are nor defined by Philosophers according to common acception that is respectively from one man unto another or any constant site in each as though that should bee the right in one which upon confront or facing stands a thwaâ—t or diagonially unto the other but were distinguished according to the activitie and predominant locomotion upon either side Thus Aristole in his excellent Tract de Incessu animâ—lium ascribeth six positions unto animals answering the three dimensions which he dâ—termineth not by site or position unto the heavens but by their faculties and functions and these are Imum summum Ante Retro Dextra Sinâ—slra that is the superiour part where the aliment is received that the lower extreme where it is last expelled so hee termeth a man a plant inverted for hee supposeth the root of a tree the head or upper paâ—t thereof whereby it â—eceiveth it aliment although therewith it respects the Center of the earth but with the other the Zenith and this position is answerable unto longitude Those parts are anterior and measure profunditie where the senses especially the eyes are placed and those posterior which are opposite hereunto The dextrous and sinistrous parts of the body make up the Latitude and are not certain and inalterable like the other for thâ—â—â—aith hee is the right side from whence the motion of the body beginneth that is the active or moving side but that the sinister which is the weaker or more quiescent part of the same determination were the Platonicks and Pythagoriaâ—s before him who conceiving the heavens an animated body named the East the right or dextrous part from whence began their motion and thus the Greeks from wence the Latines have borrowed their appellation have named this hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denominating it not from the site but office from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 capio that is the hand w ch receiveth or is usually implied in that action Now upon these grounds we are most commonly mistaken defining that by situation which they determined by motion and give the terme of right hand to that which doth not properly admit â—t For fiâ—st many in their infancy are sinistrously disposed and divers continue all their life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is left handed and have but weak and imperfect use of the right now unto these that hand is properly the right and not the other estemed so by situation Thus may Aristotle bee made out when hee affirmeth the right claw of Crabbes and Lobsters is biggest if we take the right for the most vigorous side and not regard the relative situation for the one is generally bigger then the other yet not alwayes upon the same side so may it bâ—e verified what is delivered by Scaliger in his Comment that Palsies do oftnest happen upon the left side if understood in this sense the most vigorous part protâ—cting it selfe and protruding the matter upon the wâ—aker and lesse resistive side and thus the Law of Common-Weales that cut off the right hand of Malefactors if Philosophically executed is impartiall otherwise the amputation not equally punisheth all Some ar◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is ambidexterous or right-handed on both sides which happeneth only unto strong and Athleticall bodies whose heat and spirits are able to afford an ability unto both and therefore Hippocrates saith that women are not ambidexterous that is not so often as men for some are found which indifferently make use of both and so may Aristotle say that only man is Ambidexter of this constitution was Asteropaeus in Homer and Parthenopeus the Theban Captaine in Statius and of the same doe some conceivâ— our Father Adam to have been as being perfectly framed and in a constitution admitting least defect Now in these men the right hand is on both sides and that which is the opposite to the one is not the left unto the other Againe some are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Galen hath expressed that is Ambilevous or left handed on both sides such as with agility and vigour have not the use of either who are not gymâ—astically composed nor actively use those parts now in these there is no right hand of this constitution are many women and some men who though they accustome themselves unto either hand do dexteâ—ously make use of neither and therefore although the Politicall advise of Aristotle bee very good that men should accustom themselves to the command of either hand yet cannot thâ— execution or performance thereof be generall for though there bee many found that can use both yet will there divers remaine that can strenuously make use of neither Lastly these lateralities in man are not onely fallible if relatively determined unto each others but made in reference unto the heavens and quarters of the Globe for those parts are not capable of these conditions in themselves nor with any certainty respectively derived from us nor we from them againe And first in regard of their proper nature the heavens admit not these sinister and dexter respects there being in them no diversitie or difference but a simplicity of parts and equiformity in motion continually succeeding each other so that from what point soever we compute the account will be common unto the whole circularity and therefore though it be plausible it is not fundamentall what is delivered by Solinus That man was therefore a Microcosmâ— or little world because the dimensions of his positions were answerablâ— unto the greater for as in the heavens the distance of the North and Southerne pole which are esteemed the supâ—riour and inferiour poyntâ— is equall unto thâ— space between thâ— East and West accounted the dextrous and sinistrous parts thereof so is it also in man for the extent of his fathome or distance betwixt the extremity of the fingerâ— of either hand upon expansion is equall unto the space between the soalâ— of the foot and the crowne but this doth but petionarily inferre a dextrality in the heavens and we may as reasonably conclude a right an left laterallity in the Ark or navall edifice of Noah for the length thereof was thirty cubits the bredth fifty and the heigth or profundity thirty which well agreeth unto the proportion of man whose length that is a perpendicular from the vertix unto the soal of the foot is â—extuple unto his breadth or a right line drawne from the
a Countâ—y may be more fruitfull then it selfe For India is more fertile then Spaine because more East and that the Sunne ariseth first unto it Spaine likewise by the same reason more fruitfull then America and America then India so that Spaine is lesse fruitfull then that Country which a lesse fertile Country then it selfe excelleth Lastly if we conceive the Sunne hath any advantage by the priority of its ascent or makes thereby one Country more happy then another we introduce injustifiable acceptions and impose a naturall partiality on that luminary which being equidistant from the Earth and equally removed in the East as in the West his power and efficacie in both places must bee equall as Boetius hath taken notice in his first de Gemmis and Scaliger hath graphically declared in his Exercitations some have therefore forsaken this refuge of the Sunne and to salve the effect have recurred unto the influence of the starres making their activities Nationall and appropriating their powers unto particular regions So Cardan conceiveth the tayle of Ursa major peculiarly respecteth Europe whereas indeed once in 24 houres it also absolveth its course over Asia and America And therefore it will not be easie to apprehend those stars peculiarly glance on us who must of necessity carry a common eye and regard unto all Countries unto whom their revolution and verticity is also common The effects therefore are different productions in severall Countries which we impute unto the action of the Sunne must surely have nearer and more immediate causes then that Luminaâ—y and these if wee place in the propriety of the clime or condition of soyle wherein they are produced we shall more reasonably proceed then they who ascribe them unto the activity of the Sunne whose revolution being regular it hath no power nor efficacie peculiar from its orientality but equally disperseth his beames unto all which equally and in the same restriction receive his lustre and being an universall and indefiniâ—e agent the effects or productions we behold receive not their circle from his causality but are determined by the principles of the place or qualities of that region which admits them and this is evident not onely in gemmes mineralls and metalls but observable in plaâ—ts and animalls whereof some are common unto many Countries some peculiar unto one some not communicable unto another For the hand of God that first created the earth hath with variety disposed the principles of all things wisely contriving them in their proper seminaries and where they best maintaine the intention of their species whereof if they have not a concurrence and be not lodged in a convenient matrix they are not excited by the efficacie of the Sunnâ— or fayling in particular causes receive a reliefe or sufficient promotion from the universall For although superiour powers cooperate with inferiour activities and may as some conceive carry a stroake in the plasticke and formative draught of all things yet doe their determinations belong unto particular agents and are defined from their proper principles Thus the Sunne which with us is fruitfull in the generation of frogs toads and serpents to this effect proves impotent in our neighbour Island wherein as in all other carrying a common aspect it concurreth but unto predisposed effects and onely suscitates those formes whose determinations are seminall and proceed from the Idea of themselves Now wheras there be many observations concerning East and divers considerations of Art which seeme to extoll the quality of that point if rightly understood they doe not really promote it That the Astrologer takes account of nativities from the Ascendent that is the first house of the heavens whose beginning is toward the East it doth not advantage the conceit for he establisheth not his Judgement upon the Orientality thereof but considereth therein his first ascent above the Horizon at which time its efficacy becomes observable and is conceaved to have the signification of life and to respect the condition of all things which at the same time arise from their causes and ascend to their Horizon with it Now this ascension indeed falls out respectively in the East but as we have delivered before in some positions there is no Easterne point from whence to compute these ascensions So is it in a parallel spheare for unto them six houses are continually depressed and six never elevated and the Planets themselves whose revolutions are of more speed and influences of higher consideration must finde in that place very imperfect regard for halfe their period they absolve above and halfe beneath the Horizon and so for six yeares no man can have the happinesse to be borne under Jupiter and for fifteene together all must escape the ascendent dominion of Saturne That Aâ—istotle in his Politicks commends the situation of a City which is open towards the East and admitteth the rayes of the rising Sun thereby is implyed no more particular efficacy then in the West But that site is commended in regard the damps and vaporous exhalations ingendered in the absence of the Sun are by his returning rayes the sooner dispelled and men thereby more eaâ—ly enjoy a cleare and healthy habitation and upon these and the like considerations it is that Marcus Varro de re Rustica commendeth the same situation and exposeâ—h his farme unto the equinoxiall ascent of the Sun that Palladius adviseth the front of his edifice should so respect the South that in the first angle it receave the rising rayes of the winter Sunne and decline a little from the winter setting thereof And concordant hereunto is the instruction of Columella in his Chapter Depositione villae which hee contriveth into Summer and Winter habitations ordering that the Winter lodgings regard the winter ascent of the Sun that is South-East and the roomes of repast at supper the Aequinoxiall setting thereof that is the West that the Summer lodgings regard the Aequinoxiall Meridian but the roomes of caenation in the Summer he obverts unto the winter assent that is South-East and the Balnearies or bathing places that they may remaine under the Sun untill evening hee exposeth unto the Summer setting that is North-West in all which although the Cardinall points be introduced yet is the consideration Solary and onely determined unto the aspect or visible reception of the Sun That Mahumetans and Jews in these and our neighbour parts are observed to use some gestures towards the East as at their benediction and the killing of their meate it cannot be denied and though many ignorant spectators and not a few of the actors conceave some Magick or mysterie therein yet is the Ceremony onely Topicall and in a memoriall relation unto a place they honour So the Jews do carry a respect and cast an eye upon Jerusalem for which practise they are not without the example of their forefathers and the encouragement of their wise King For so it is said that Daniel went into his house and his windowes being opened