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teach, and experience doth plainely shew vs. We must LlB&amp;gt; &quot; 

 adde an other proposition, which is likewise true and very 

 considerable for all the effectes of nature to vnderstand the 

 perseverance and continuation of the efficient cause to 

 worke and moove. This presupposed, if any one demaund 

 of me, why vnder the Equinoctiall Line the heat is not so 

 violent in summer as in some other Regions (as in Anda 

 lusia in the moneths of luly and August), I will answere, 

 that in Andalusia the dayes are longer, and the nights 

 shorter; and as the day being hot, inflames and causeth 

 heat, so the nights being cold and moist, give a refreshing. 

 According to the which, at Peru, there is no such great 

 heat, for that the dayes in summer are not long, nor the 

 nights short ; so as the heate of the day is much tempered 

 by the freshnesse of the night. And although the burning 

 Zone be neerer the Sunne then all other Regions, yet doth 

 not the heate continue there so long. It is a naturall thing 

 that a small fire continued, heats more then a greater that 

 lastes but little, especially if there bee any thing to refresh 

 it. He therefore that shal put these two properties of the 

 Zone in one ballance, that it is most rainie in the time of 

 greatest heate, and that the dayes are shortest there, he 

 shall perchance finde them to equall the other two con 

 trarieties, which bee, that the Sunne is neerer and more 

 directly over them then in other Regions. 



CHAP. xi. That there be other reasons besides the former 

 mentioned, ivliich sheiv that the burning Zone is tempe 

 rate, especially alongst the Ocean. 



Being a thing concluded, that the two forenamed proper 

 ties are common and vniversal to all the region of the 

 burning Zone : and yet in the same there are found some 

 places very hote, and other exceeding colde ; Also, that tlio 



