A.D. 



1578. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



habitation, whereby lastly it followeth, that all the middle 

 Zone, which untill of late dayes hath bene compted and 

 called the burning, broyling, and parched Zone, is now 

 found to be the most delicate, temperate, commodious, 

 pleasant, and delectable part of the world, and especially 

 under the Equinoctiall. 



Having now sufficiently at large declared the tempera- 

 ture of the middle Zone, it remaineth to speake somewhat 

 also of the moderate and continuall heate in colde 

 Regions, as well in the night as in the day all the 

 Sommer long, and also how these Regions are habitable 

 to the inhabitants of the same, contrary to the opinion of 

 the olde writers. 



Nine Cli- 

 mates. 



Of the temperature of colde Regions all the 

 Sommer long, and also how in Winter the 

 same is habitable, especially to the inhabitants 

 thereof. 



He colde Regions of the world are those, 

 which tending toward the Poles Arctike, 

 and Antarctike, are without the circuite or 

 boundes of the seven Climates : which 

 assertion agreeable to the opinion of the 

 olde Writers, is found and set out in 

 our authour of the Sphere, Johannes de 

 Sacrobosco, where hee plainely saith, that without the 

 seventh Climate, which is bounded by a Parallel passing at 

 fiftie degrees in Latitude, all the habitation beyonde is 

 discommodious and intollerable. But Gemma Frisius a 

 late writer finding England and Scotland to be without 

 the com passe of those Climates, wherein hee knewe to bee 

 very temperate and good habitation, added thereunto 

 two other Climates, the uttermost Parallel whereof 

 passeth by 56. degrees in Latitude, and therein com- 

 prehendeth over and above the first computation, England, 

 Scotland, Denmarke, Moscovia, &c. which all are rich 

 and mightie kingdomes. 



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