GEORGE BESTS DISCOURSE a.d. 



iS78. 



yardes, French, and some Englishmen, who there have 



built Castles and Townes. Onely this I will say to the Marochus 



Merchants of London, that trade yeerely to Marochus, it ^uuheEqul 



is very certaine, that the greatest part of the burning noc fau. 



Zone is farre more temperate and coole in June, then the 



Countrey of Marochus, as shall appeare by these reasons 



and experiences following. For let us first consider the 



breadth and bignesse of this burning Zone (which as 



every man knoweth, is 47. degrees) each Tropicke, 



which are the bounders thereof, being 23. degrees and a 



halfe distant from the Equinoctiall. Imagine againe two 



other Parallels, on each side the Equinoctiall one, eyther 



of them distant from the Equinoctial about 20. degrees, 



which Paralels may be described either of them twice a 



yeere by the Sunne, being in the first degrees of Gemini 



the 11. of May, and in Leo the 13. of July, having 



North latitude. And againe, the Sunne being in the 



first degrees of Sagittarius, the 12. of November, and 



in Aquarius the 9. of January, having South latitude, 



I am to proove by experience and reason, that all that 



distance included betweene these two Paralels last named 



(conteyning 40. degrees in latitude, going round about 



the earth, according to longitude) is not onely habitable, 



but the same most fruitfull and delectable, and that if 



any extremitie of heate bee, the same not to be within 



the space of twenty degrees of the Equinoctiall on either 



side, but onely under and about the two Tropickes, and 



so proportionally the neerer you doe approch to eyther 



Tropicke, the more you are subject to extremitie of heate 



(if any such be) and so Marochus being situate but sixe 



or seven degrees from the Tropicke of Cancer, shall 



be more subject to heate, then any place under or neere 



the Equinoctiall line. 



And first by the experience of sundry men, yea 

 thousands, Travailers and Merchants, to the East and 

 West Indies in many places both directly under, and hard 

 by the Equinoctiall, they with one consent affirme, that 

 it aboundeth in the middest of Torrida Zona with all 



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