a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



especially of such creatures as are ingendred and bred 

 therein. For indeed it is to be confessed, that some 

 particular living creature cannot live in every particular 

 place or region, especially with the same joy and felicitie, 

 as it did where it was first bred, for the certeine agree- 

 ment of nature that is betweene the place and the thing 



Elephant. bred in that place ; as appeareth by the Elephant, which 

 being translated and brought out of the second or third 

 climat, though they may live, yet will they never ingender 

 or bring forth yong. Also we see the like in many kinds 



Orange tree, of plants and herbs ; for example, the Orange trees, 

 although in Naples they bring forth fruit abundantly, 

 in Rome and Florence they will beare onely faire greene 

 leaves, but not any fruit : and translated into England, 

 they will hardly beare either flowers, fruit, or leaves, but 

 are the next Winter pinched and withered with colde : 

 yet it followeth not for this, that England, Rome, and 

 Florence should not be habitable. 



Two causes of I n the proving of these colde regions habitable, I shalbe 



heat. very short, because the same reasons serve for this 



purpose, which were alleged before in the proving the 

 middle Zone to be temperate, especially seeing all heat 

 and colde proceed from the Sunne, by the meanes either 

 of the Angle which his beames do make with the Horizon, 

 or els by the long or short continuance of the Suns 

 presence above ground : so that if the Sunnes beames 

 do beat perpendicularly at right Angles, then there is 

 one cause of heat, and if the Sunne do also long continue 

 above the Horizon, then the heat thereby is much in- 

 creased by accesse of this other cause, & so groweth to 

 a kinde of extremity. And these two causes, as I sayd 

 before, do most concurre under the two Tropicks, and 

 therefore there is the greatest heat of the world. And 

 likewise, where both these causes are most absent, there is 

 greatest want of heat, and increase of colde (seeing that 

 colde is nothing but the privation and absence of heat) 

 and if one cause be wanting, and the other present, the 

 effect will grow indifferent. Therefore this is to be 



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