WITHIN THE TROPICS. 9o . 



and give a reason thereof, cannot content himselfe with LlB - &quot; 

 these generall rules before specified, to proove that the 

 burning Zone may be a temperate land. Among the 

 speciall causes and reasons, I have first placed the Sea, for 

 without doubt, the neerenesse thereof doth helpe to temper 

 and coole the heat ; for although the water be salt, yet is it 

 alwayes water, whose nature is cold, and it is a thing re- 

 markeable, that in the depth of the Ocean, the water can 

 not be made hot by the violence of the Sunne, as in rivers ; 

 finally, even as salt-peeter (though it be of the nature of 

 salt) hath a propertie to coole water, even so we see by ex 

 perience, that in some ports and havens, the salt-water 

 doth refresh ; the which wee have observed in that of 

 Callao, whereas they put the water or wine which they 

 drinke, into the Sea in flaggons to be refreshed, whereby 

 wee may vndoubtedly finde, that the Ocean hath this 

 propertie, to temper and moderate the excessive heate ; for 

 this cause we feele greater heat at land then at sea, Cceteris 

 paribus ; and commonly Countries lying neere the sea, are 

 cooler then those that are farther off. Oceteris paribus, as 

 I have said, even so the greatest part of the new world, 

 lying very neere the Ocean, wee may with reason say, 

 although it bee vnder the burning Zone, yet doth it receive 

 a great benefite from the sea to temper the heat. 



CHAP. xn. That the highest landes arc tlie coldest, and tJte 

 reason thereof. 



Bvt if we shall yet search more particularly, we shall not 

 finde in all this land an equall temperature of heate, although 

 it be in equall distance from the sea, and in the same 

 degree, seeing that in some partes there is great heate, and 

 in some, very little. Doubtlesse, the cause thereof is, that 

 the one is lower, and the other higher ; which causeth that 



