a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



tion, whereby it seemeth to follow, that in June the 



heate at Paris were double to the heate under the 



equinoctiall. For (as I have said) the Angles of the 



Sunne beames are in all points equall, and the cause of 



difference is, Mora Solis supra Horizontem, the stay of 



the Sunne in the one Horizon more then in the other. 



Therefore, whosoever could finde out in what proportion 



In what pro- the Angle of the Sunne beames heateth, and what en- 



A H fth crease tne Sunnes continuance doeth adde thereunto, it 



Sun beames might expresly be set downe, what force of heat and 



heateth. cold is in all regions. 



Thus you partly see by comparing a Climate to us 



well knowen, and familiarly acquainted by like height of 



the Sunne in both places, that under the Equinoctiall 



in June is no excessive heat, but a temperate aire rather 



tending to cold. For as they have there for the most 



part a continuall moderate heat, so yet sometime they 



They use and are a little pinched with colde, and use the benefite of 



ave ne * de °f fire as well as we, especially in the evening when they 



Equinoctiall. g oe to k ec ^ f° r as tne 7 ty e m hanging beds tied fast 



in the upper part of the house, so will they have fires 



made on both sides their bed, of which two fires, the one 



they devise superstitiously to drive away spirits, and the 



other to keepe away from them the coldnesse of the nights. 



Also in many places of Torrida Zona, especially in 



the higher landes somewhat mountainous, the people a 



litle shrincke at the cold, and are often forced to provide 



themselves clothing, so that the Spaniards have found 



in the West Indies many people clothed, especially in 



Colde inter- Winter, whereby appeareth, that with their heat there 



heate under the 1S co ^ e intermingled, else would they never provide this 



Equinoctial, remedy of clothing, which to them is rather a griefe 



and trouble then otherwise. For when they goe to 



warres, they will put off all their apparell, thinking it to 



be combersome, and will alwayes goe naked, that they 



thereby might be more nimble in their fight. 



Some there be that thinke the middle Zone extreme 

 hot, because the people of the countrey can, and doe 



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