ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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heat is the lesse for any effect that the Angle of the 

 Sunne beames make. Yet because wee have a longer 

 continuance of the Sunnes presence above our Horizon 

 then they have under the Equinoctial ; by this con- 

 tinuance the heat is increased, for it shineth to us 16. 

 or 18. houres sometime, when it continueth with them 

 but twelve houres alwayes. 



And againe, our night is very short wherein cold 

 vapours use to abound, being but sixe or eight houres 

 long, whereas theirs is alwayes twelve houres long, by 

 which two advantages of long dayes and short nights, 

 though we want the equalitie of Angle, it commeth to 

 passe that in Sommer our heat here is as great as theirs 

 is there, as hath bene proved by experience, and is 

 nothing dissonant from good reason. Therefore who- 

 soever will rightly way the force of colde and heat in 

 any region, must not onely consider the Angle that the 

 Sunne beames make, but also the continuance of the same 

 above the Horizon. As first to them under the Equi- 

 noctiall the Sunne is twice a yeere at noone in their 

 Zenith perpendicular over their heads, and therefore 

 during the two houres of those two dayes the heat is 

 very urgent, and so perhaps it will be in foure or five 

 dayes more an houre every day, untill the Sunne in 

 his proper motion have crossed the Equinoctiall ; so that 

 this extreme heat caused by the perpendicular Angle of 

 the Sunne beames, endureth but two houres of two 

 dayes in a yeere. But if any man say the Sunne may 

 scalde a good while before and after it come to the 

 Meridian, so farre foorth as reason leadeth, I am content 

 to allow it, and therefore I will measure and proportion 

 the Sunnes heat, by comparing the Angles there, with 

 the Angles made here in England, because this tempera- 

 ture is best knowen unto us. As for example, the 

 11. day of March, when under the Equinoctiall it is 

 halfe houre past eight of the clocke in the morning, 

 the Sunne will be in the East about 38. degrees above 

 the Horizon, because there it riseth alwayes at sixe 



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