A.D. 



1576. 



The Sea hath 

 three motions. 



1 Motum ab 

 oricnte in occi- 

 dentem. 



2 Motum 

 ftuxus £5 re- 



f.UXUi. 



3 Motum cir- 

 cular em. 



Ad cae/i 

 motum ele- 

 menta omnia 

 (excepta 

 terra) moven- 

 tur. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



of Cataia or Tartarie could enter the countrey of America, 

 or they of America have entred Asia if it were so joyned : 

 yet some one savage or wandring beast would in so 

 many yeres have passed into it : but there hath not any 

 time bene found any of the beasts proper to Cataia, or 

 Tartarie &c. in America : nor of those proper to America, 

 in Tartarie, Cataia, &c. or any part of Asia. Which 

 thing proveth America, not onely to be one Island, and 

 in no part adjoyning to Asia : But also that the people 

 of those Countreys, have not had any traffique with 

 each other. 



5 Moreover at the least some one of those painefull 

 travellers, which of purpose have passed the confines of 

 both countreys, with intent only to discover, would as 

 it is most likely have gone from the one to the other : 

 if there had bene any piece of land, or Isthmos, to have 

 joyned them together, or els have declared some cause 

 to the contrary. 



6 But neither Paulus Venetus, who lived and dwelt 

 a long time in Cataia, ever came into America, and yet 

 was at the sea coastes of Mangia, over against it where 

 he was embarked, and perfourmed a great Navigation 

 along those seas : Neither yet Verarzanus, or Franciscus 

 Vasques de Coronado, who travelled the North part of 

 America by land, ever found entry from thence by land 

 to Cataia, or any part of Asia. 



7 Also it appeareth to be an Island, insomuch as the 

 Sea runneth by nature circularly from the East to the 

 West, following the diurnal motion of Primum Mobile, 

 which carieth with it all inferiour bodies moveable, aswel 

 celestiall as elemental : which motion of the waters is 

 most evidently seene in the Sea, which lieth on the 

 Southside of Afrike, where the current that runneth from 

 the East to the West is so strong (by reason of such 

 motion) that the Portugals in their voyages Eastward 

 to Calicut, in passing by Cap. de buona Speranca are 

 inforced to make divers courses, the current there being 

 so swift as it striketh from thence all along Westward 



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