Ofche Snowe 
Inthe: fire hath no mirture of other Elements, and een 
theſe Clements the ayꝛe is very pꝛincipat, which is deuided 
into thꝛee parts, one is the ſupꝛeame, and neere to the Kegi⸗ 
on ofthe fire, which is whotte and dꝛye fo2 the kellowihippe 
that it hath therewith, taking muche of his qualitie, whiche 
is cleere and pure, from whence doo not pꝛoceede anpe 
Wyndes, noꝛ clowdes: and this they call the celettiall Re⸗ 
gion: and the partes moze lowe which are neere ta the Was 
ter and earth bee great and troubled full of Gapours, pears 
ted and viſited with the beames of the Dunne, twheresp 
it commeth to bee whotte and the ſupꝛeams and middle 
Region of the ayꝛe, dooth tome to bee very colde, becauſe 
it ſtandeth in the middeſt of the twoo extremities, bee png 
fo whotte. And in it, is increaled the colde as in the mid⸗ 
dle part flying krom the ertreame partes of heat, as we haue 
ſpoken ok beſoze. This middle parte hath partes moze 63 
leſſe eolde, foꝛ the parte that is topningneere vnto bs is not 
fo told, as that which is neere to the faperiour partes ot the 
fre. And how much moze the vapours do riſe vp on height, 
moze they bo tongele, and holde fal. In the middle region of 
the apꝛe doo ingender the clowdes, the ſmall raynes -, the 
dꝛoppes, the kroſt, the rapne, the Snowe ee Hayls , and 
other impꝛeſſions of the Thunder, ligytninges and Harpe 
eee The Clowdes be the pꝛincipall mat / 
ter, which dos ingender the Rapne, the Snowe, and the 
ess and the other inrpreffions twhiche wer haue ſpoken 
of that are made of manp UAapours which doo ryſe vppe 
rom the lower partes vnto the middle Region ofthe apꝛe: 
and lo beeyng ioyned, they make one body, and they ware 
dicke with the colbe of the faide plate: and fox this the cland 
is like to a mother, and is the common matter ofall the im ⸗ 
oe zenten that are made in the ase. And (a it is of the nowe 
‘asa thing ingendꝛed of it in the middle Region of the ayꝛe. 
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