98 THE COOL WINDS TEMPER THE TEOPICAL HEAT. 



LIB. H. w -}} no j. cou tradict Aristotle, but in that which is most 

 certaine), in the end they agree all that the middle region 

 of the ayre is colder than the lowest next to the earth, as 

 experience dooth shew vs, seeing that in this middle region 

 are congealed snowe, haile, frosts, and other signes of 

 extreame colde. The middle region then, which they call 

 the burning Zone, having on the one side the sea and on 

 the other the mountaines, we must hold them for sufficient 

 causes to temper and coole the heate. 



CHAP. xin. That the colde windes be the principall cause to 

 make the burning Zone temperate. 



The temperature of this region ought chiefly to be attri 

 buted to the property of the wind that blows in that country, 

 the which is pleasant and fresh. The providence of the 

 great God, Creator of al things, hath bin such as he hath 

 ordained fresh and coole windes in that region where the 

 sunne makes his course (which seernes should be burnt vp), 

 that by their coolenes the excessive heate of the sunne might 

 be qualified. And they are not farre from appearance of 

 reason, which held that the earthly Paradise was vnder the 

 Equinoctiall. If they had not deceived themselves in the 

 cause of their opinion, saying that the equalitie of the dayes 

 and nights was sufficient of it selfe to make that Zone tem 

 perate, to which opinion many others have beenc opposite, 

 of which number was that renowned Poet, saying 



&quot; That coast incessantly by hotte beames tyred 

 Of Phoebus, who from thence never retyred.&quot; 1 



The coolenesse of the night then is not sufficient to mode- 



1 &quot; Y a quella parte 

 Esta siempre de un Sol bravo encendida 

 Sin que fuego jamas della se aparta,&quot; 



