OPINION Or PLINY. Z.J 



must beleeve that the burning zone is well inhabited, Lin - T&amp;lt; 

 although the auncients have held it impossible. But the 

 other zone or region, which lyeth betwixt the burning zone 

 and that of the Pole Anturtike, although it bee in a climate 

 more commodious for the life of man, yet it is smally 

 peopled and inhabited, seeing wee know no other dwelling 

 in it but the Kingdom of Chile and a small portion ioyning 

 to the Cape of good Hope, The rest is possessed by the 

 Ocean. Although many be of opinion, the which I likewise 

 hold, that there is much more land not yet discovered, the 

 which should be fir me land opposite to the Kingdom of 

 Chile, which runnes beyond the circle or Tropicke of 

 Capricorne. And if there be any, without doubt it is a land 

 of an excellent temper, being in the midst of two extrearnes, 

 and scituate in the same climate with the best regions in 

 Europe. And in this regard Aristotles coniecture was 

 good. But speaking of what is discovered at this day in 

 this zone, it is little in regard of the large countries inha 

 bited vnder the burning zone. 



CHAP. x. Tlu:d Plinie and the auncients held the same opinion 

 with Aristotle. 



This opinion of Aristotles, hath bene held by Plinie, who Piin., m&amp;gt;. 

 saith thus : &quot; The temperature of the middle region of the 

 world, where the sunne continually runnes his course, is 

 scorched and burnt vp as with a neere fire.&quot; Ioyning to 

 the same region, there are two others of eyther side, which 

 (lying betwixt the heat of this burning zone and the cruell 

 cold of the other two extreams) are very temperate, and 

 can have no communication one with another, by reason of 

 the excessive heate of the heaven, which hath bene the 

 opinion of the Ancients, generally described by the Poet 

 in these verses : 



