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land_n	island_n	lie_v	south_n	5,603	5	9.7081	5	true

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A21131	Obseruations vpon the fiue first bookes of Cæsars commentaries setting fourth the practise of the art military in the time of the Roman Empire : wherein are handled all the chiefest point of their discipline, with the true reason of euery part, together with such instructions as may be drawn from their proceedings, for the better direction of our moderne warres / by Clement Edmunds.	Edmondes, Clement, Sir, 1566 or 7-1622.; Caesar, Julius. De bello Gallico. English. Abridgments.	1600 (1600)	STC 7488; ESTC S121459	200,986	215

to the East and the other angle to the South this side containeth about 500. mile Another side lieth toward Spaine and the West that waie where Ireland lieth being an Ilande halfe as big as England and as farre distant from it as Gallia in the midway between England Ireland lieth an Iland called Mona besides many other smaller Ilands of which some write that in winter time for 30. daies together they haue continuall night whereof we learned nothing by inquirie only we found by certaine measures of water that the nights in England were shorter then in the Continent The length of this side according to the opinion of the inhabitants containeth 700. mile The thirde side lieth to the North and the open sea sauing that this angle doth somwhat point towards Germanie this side is thought to contain 800. miles And so the whole Iland containeth in circuit 2000. miles Of al the inhabitants they of Kent are most curteous and ciuill al their countrey bordering vpon the sea and little differing from the fashion of Gallia Most of the inlande people sow no corne but liue with milke and flesh clothed with skins and hauing their faces painted with a blew colour to the end they may seeme more terrible in sight they haue the haire of their head long hauing al other parts of their body shauen sauing their vpper lip Their wiues are common to ten or twelue especially brethren with brethren and parents with children but the children that are borne are put vnto them vnto whom the mother was first giuen in mariage OBSERVATIONS IN the descriptions of the ancient Britains we may first obserue their pedegree according to the Haraldry of that time wherein we must vnderstand that in those ages the Ntiaons of the worlde thought it no small honor to deriue their descent from a certaine beginning and to make either some of their Gods or some man of a famous memorie the father of that progenie and founder of their state that so they might promise a fortunate continuance to their gouernment being first laide and established by so powerfull a meanes But if this failed they then bragged of antiquitie and cast all their glory vpon the fertility of their soile being so strong and fruitful that it yeelded of it selfe such a people as they were and so we read howe the Athenians for as much as they were ignoraunt from whence they came ware an Oaken leafe in token that they were bred of the earth where they dwelled And hereupon also grew the controuersie betweene the Egyptians and the Scythians concerning antiquity wherein the Egyptians seemed to haue great aduantage because of the fertility and heat of their countrey whereas the Scythians inhabited a colde climate vnfruitfull and an enemy to generation Of this sort were the Britains that inhabited the mediterranean part of the Ilande who not knowing from whence they came nor who first brought them thither satisfied themselues with that common receiued opinion that they were borne and bred of the earth The sea coast was possest by such as came out of the continent and retained the names of the cities from whence they came as a memoriall of their progenitors The forme of the Iland is very well described and measured out according to the scale of our moderne Geographers For concerning the difference of longitude between the Easterne angel of Kent and the furthest point of Cornewal they make it eight degrees which in a maner iumpeth with Caesars dimensuration the other sides are somewhat longer and therefore Tacitus in the life of Agricola compareth it to a Carpenters Axe making that side which bordereth vpon France to resemble the Edge and the other two sides to incline by little and little one towardes an other and so make the Ilande narrower at the top according to the forme of that instrument Hee setteth downe the whole compasse of the Iland according to the manner of the ancient Geographers who by the quantity of the circuit did vsually iudge of the content not considering that the Area of euery figure dependeth as well of the quantity of the angle as the length of the side Concerning the temperature of Britanie in regard of the colde winters in France we must vnderstand that Britanie hath euer beene found of a more temperate constitution in regarde of sharpe and colde winters then any other countrey lying vnder the same parallell whether the cause thereof may bee imputed to the continuall motion of the sea about the Iland which begetteth heat as some haue imagined or to the site thereof in regard of other Continents from whence the winde alwaies riseth and carieth with it the nature of the countrey by which it passeth and so the Ilande hauing no other continent lying North to it from whence the winde may rise but all for the most part vpon the South hath no such colde windes to distemper it as other parts of Germany which are vnder the same parallel but the Southern wind which is so frequent in Britany tēpereth the ayre with a mild disposition and so keepeth it warme or whether it be some other vnknowne cause our Philosophers rest vnsatisfied But as touching Gallia it may bee saide that forasmuch as it beareth more to the South then this Iland doth the aire thereof by reason of the continuall heate is of a farre purer disposition and so pierceth more then this grosser aire of Britany carieth the cold further into the pores and so seemeth sharper and of a far colder disposition This Iland which Caesar nameth Mona is known at this time by the name of Man and lieth betweene Cumberland and Ireland Ptolemie calleth it Monaeda Tacitus calleth Anglesey by the name of Mona peraduenture from the nomination of the Britains who calleth it Tyr mon the land of Mon. Concerning those places where the night continueth in the midst of winter for 30. daies together they must be sited 6. degrees beyond the circle Articke and haue a day in summer of like continuance according to the rules of Astronomy In that he found the nights in Britanie shorter then in the continent we must vnderstand it to be only in summer for the more oblique the horizon is the more vneuen are the portions of the diurnall circles which it cutteth and the neerer it commeth to a right horizon the neerer it commeth to an equality of daie and night and hence it happeneth that in summer time the nights in France are longer then here in England and in winter shorter The like wee must vnderstand of all Sotherne and Northerne countries To conclude I may not omit the ciuility of the Kentish men and their curteous disposition aboue the rest of the Britains which must be imputed to that ordinarie course which brought ciuility vnto all other nations of whom such as were first seated in their possessions and entertained societie were the first that brought in ciuill conuersation and by little and little were purified and so