ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1527. 



also 360 degrees: which begin to be counted after 



Ptoleme and other Cosmographers from an headland 



called Capo Verde, which is over against a little crosse 



made in the part Occidental, where the division of the 



degrees beginneth, and endeth in the same Capo Verde. 



To know the Now to know in what longitude any land is, your 



longitudes. Lordship must take a ruler or a compasse, and set the 



one foot of the compasse upon the land or coast whose 



longitude you would know, and extend the other 



foot of the compasse to the next part of one of the 



transversall lines in the Orientall or Occidental part : 



which done, set the one foot of the compasse in the 



said transversal line at the end of the nether scale, 



the scale of longitude, and the other foot sheweth the 



degree of longitude that the region is in. And your 



Lordship must understand that this Card, though little, 



conteineth the universall whole world betwixt two 



collaterall lines, the one in the Occidentall part descendeth 



perpendicular upon the 175 degree, & the other in 



the Orientall on the 170 degree, whose distance 



measureth the scale of longitude. And that which is 



without the two said transversall lines, is onely to shew 



how the Orientall part is joined with the Occident, and 



Occident with the Orient. For that that is set without 



the line in the Oriental part, is the same that is set 



within the other line in the Occidentall part : and that 



that is set without the line in the Occidentall part, is 



the same that is set within the line in the Orientall 



[I. 216.] part, to shew that though this figure of the world in 



plaine or flatte seemeth to have an end, yet one imagining 



that this sayd Card were set upon a round thing, 



where the endes should touch by the lines, it would 



plainely appeare howe the Orient part joyneth with the 



Occident, as there without the lines it is described and 



figured. 



And for more declaration of the said Card, your 

 Lordship shall understand, that beginning on the part 

 Occidental within the line, the first land that is set 



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