The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 08
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 08
Hakluyt Richard
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For from that tyme hidre, the Sowdanclepethe him self Calyffee. And so han the Calyffeez y lost here name. Alsowytethe wel, that Babylone the lesse, where the Soudan duellethe, and atthe cytee of Cayr, that is nyghe besyde it, ben grete huge cytees manye andfayr; and that on sytt nyghe that other. Babyloyne sytt upon the ryvere ofGyson, somtyme clept Nyle, that comethe out of Paradys terrestre. Thatryvere of Nyle, alle the zeer, whan the sonne entrethe in to the signe ofCancer, it begynnethe to... wexe; and it wexethe alle weys, als longe as thesonne is in Cancro, and in the signe of Lyoune. And it wexethe in suchemanere, that it is somtyme so gret, that it is 20 cubytes or more ofdepnesse; and thanne it doth gret harm to the godes, that ben upon thelond. For thanne may no man travaylle to ere [Footnote: Plough. ] thelondes, for the grete moystness: and therefore is there dere tyme in thatcontree. And also whan it waxethe lytylle, it is dere tyme in that contree:for defaute of moysture. And whan the sonne is in the signe of Virgo, thanne begynnethe the ryvere for to wane and to decrece lytyl and lytylle;so that whan the sonne is entred into the signe of Libra, thanne theientren betwene theise ryveres.
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