16 THE POLE ANTARTICKE. 



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LIB. i. we no i ma gine that there is land necessarily on all parts of 

 the world. For being so, that the two elements of earth 

 and water make one globe or bowle, according to the 

 de pi n i n f the most renowmed ancient authors, (as Plutarch 

 testifieth) and as it is prooved by most certaine demon 

 strations, wee may coniecture, that the sea doth occupie all 

 this part, which is vnder the Antartike or southerne Pole, 

 so as there should not remaine any place in these partes for 

 the earth, the which saint Augustine doth very learned]y 

 hold against them that maintaine the Antipodes, saying, 

 that although it bee prooved, and wee beleeve that the 

 worlde is round like to a bowle, wee may not therefore 

 inferre, that in this other part of the worlde, the earth is 

 vncovered, and without water. Without doubt, saint 

 xvfde Augustine speakes well vpon this point; and as the con- 

 . trary is not prooved, so doth it not follow, that there is 



any land discovered at the Antarticke Pole. The which 

 experience hath now plainely taught vs, for although the 

 greatest part of the world vnder the Pole Antarticke be 

 sea, yet is it not altogether, but there is likew se land, so 

 as in all parts of the world, the earth and water imbrace 

 one another, which truely is a thing to make vs admire and 

 glorifie the Arte of the soveraigne Creator. We know 

 Genes, i. then by the holy Scripture, that in the beginning of the 

 worlde, the waters were gathered together in one place, so 

 as the earth remayiied vncovered. Moreover, the same 

 holy Writte doth teach vs, that these gatherings together 

 of the water were called Sea; and as there be many, so of 

 necessitie there must be many Seas. And this diversitie 

 of seas is not onely in the Mediterranean Sea, whereas one 

 is called Euxine, another the Caspian, an other the Ery- 

 threan or redde Sea, another the Persian, an other of Ttalie, 

 and so many others. But also in the great Ocean, which 

 the holy Scripture doth vsually call a gulph : although 

 really and in trueth it be but a Sea, yet in many and divers 



