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following after the heavenly motions, looseth not alto- 

 gether his force, but is doubled rather by an other 

 current from out the Northeast, in the passage betweene 

 America and the North land, whither it is of necessity 

 caryed : having none other way to maintaine it selfe in 

 circular motion, & consequently the force and fury 

 thereof to be no lesse in the straight of Anian, where 

 it striketh South into Mar del Zur, beyond America 

 (if any such straight of Sea there be) then in Magellans 

 fret, both straights being of like bredth : as in Belognine 

 Zalterius table of new France, and in Don Diego 

 Hermano de Toledo his Card for navigation in that 

 region we doe finde precisely set downe. 



Neverthelesse to approove that there lyeth a way to 

 Cathayo at the Northwest from out of Europe, we 

 have experience, namely of three brethren that went 

 that journey, as Gemma Frisius recordeth, and left a 

 name unto that straight, whereby now it is called 

 Fretum trium fratrum. We doe reade againe of a 

 Portugall that passed this straight, of whom Master 

 Frobisher speaketh, that was imprisoned therefore many 

 yeeres in Lisbone, to verifie the olde Spanish proverbe, 

 I suffer for doing well. Likewise Andrew Urdaneta a 

 Fryer of Mexico came out of Mar del Zur this way 

 into Germanie : his Carde (for he was a great Dis- 

 coverer) made by his owne experience and travell in 

 that voyage, hath bene seene by Gentlemen of good 

 credite. 

 Cic. 1. dc Now if the observation and remembrance of things 



° ra - L m lSt 'i breedeth experience, and of experience proceedeth arte, 

 and the certaine knowledge we have in all faculties, as 

 the best Philosophers that ever were doe affirme : truely 

 the voyage of these aforesayd travellers that have gone 

 out of Europe into Mar del Zur, and returned thence 

 at the Northwest, do most evidently conclude that way 

 to be navigable, and that passage free. So much the 

 Lib 1 Geo? more we are so to thinke, f or that the first principle 

 Cap. 2. and chiefe ground in all Geographie, as Ptolome saith, 



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