A.D. 

 1576. 



Similium 

 simi/is est 

 ratio. 



Quicquid cor 

 rumpitur a 

 conirario cor- 

 rumpitur. 



Omne simile 

 gignit sui 

 simile. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



suddenly vary, which things must of force have bene 

 their destructions, although they had bene men of much 

 more skill then the Indians are. 



6 Moreover, all baies, gulfes, and rivers doe receive 

 their increase upon the flood, sensibly to be discerned 

 on the one side of the shore or the other, as many waies 

 as they be open to any main sea, as Mare Mediterraneum, 

 Mare Rubrum, Sinus Persicus, Sinus Bodicus, Thamesis, 

 and all other knowen havens or rivers in any part of the 

 world, and each of them opening but on one part to the 

 maine sea, doe likewise receive their increase upon the 

 flood the same way, and none other, which Mare Glaciale 

 doeth, onely by the West ; as M. Jenkinson affirmed 

 unto me : and therfore it followeth that this Northeast 

 sea, receiving increase but onely from the West, cannot 

 possibly open to the maine Ocean by the East. 



7 Moreover, the farther you passe into any sea towards 

 the end of it, on that part which is shut up from the 

 maine sea (as in all those above mentioned) the lesse 

 and lesse the tides rise and fall. The like whereof also 

 happeneth in Mare Glaciale, which proveth but small 

 continuance of that Sea toward the East. 



8 Also, the further yee goe toward the East in Mare 

 Glaciale, the lesse salt the water is : which could not 

 happen, if it were open to the salt Sea towards the East, 

 as it is to the West only, seeing Every thing naturally 

 ingendreth his like : and then must it be like salt through- 

 out, as all the seas are, in such like climate and elevation. 



And therefore it seemeth that this Northeast sea is 

 maintained by the river Ob, and such like fresshets, as 

 Mare Goticum, and Mare Mediterraneum, in the upper- 

 most parts thereof by the rivers Nilus, Danubius, Neper, 

 Tanais, &c. 



9 Furthermore, if there were any such sea at that 

 elevation, of like it should be alwaies frozen throughout 

 (there being no tides to hinder it) because the extreme 

 coldnes of the aire being in the uppermost part, and the 

 extreme coldnesse of the earth in the bottome, the sea 



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