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" Geonj. , lib. I, 1. 233.
2 " Audiit, et si quern tellus extrema ref uso - Submovet Oceano, et si quern extenta plagarum Quatuor in medio dirimit plaga solis iniqui. " /Enid, lib. Vii. 1. 225.
FOEMER OPINIONS RESPECTING A NEW WORLD. 31 summer, yet when it approached neere vnto them, at the LlB - r< same season they felt great heate. Whereby they did coniecture that if they had had the sunne so neere vnto them as to go directly over their heads, the heate would have bene so insupportable, as it would burne and consume men with the vehemency thereof. The same reason moved the Auncients to thinke that the middle region was not habitable, and therefore they called it the burning zone. And in truth, if visible experience did not vnfold this doubt, we should yet confesse that this reason were very peremptorie and Mathematicall j 1 whereby we may see how weake our vnderstanding is, to comprehend these naturall things. But wee may say, it is fallen out to the great good and happiness of our age, to have the knowledge of these two great wonders, that is, to know how easily we may saile through the great Ocean, and that vnder the burning zone men inioy a very temperate heaven, the which the Auncients could never beleeve.
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