Historic of the Indies, lib.u 



catteth the ApoJIUs) fhattbringmcprefentsfrom beyond the 

 tancks </ Ethiopia . Yet (as I have laid) there is rcafbn 

 to pardon the Philofopher, whobeleeved the writers 

 and Cofmographers of his time. Letvs continue and 

 examine what followes of the fame Ariftotle : One fart 

 eft he world (faith he) which lieth towards the North , be 

 yond the temperate zone , is inhabitable for the exceeding 

 cold: the other part vpon the South, is likewife inhabit ame 

 teyondtheTropickefor the extreame heate . But thepartes 

 of the world lying beyond India on the one fide , andthepiL 

 lers ^Hercules on the other ^without doubt cannot beeioy* 

 nedand continued one with the other ifoasallthe habit a. 

 bleearthisnotconteinedinone continent , byreafon of the 

 fea which divides it . "fn this laft point he fpeakas^ruHi: 

 then hee continues touching the other parte^bf the<; 

 world, faying , // isneceffarie the earth Jhould fimx the 

 fameproportion with the Pole AnUrticke> asth^oliK^part 

 which i* habitable hath with the North : andjtbere:vn& 

 doubt, but in that other world all things Jhtuld bebrdrcda* in 

 ours, eftecially in the growing and order of the w$ids . And 

 having alleaged other reafons to no purpofef he con- 

 cludes,fay ing, We mnH conftffi ofnecefiitie, that the Sou- 

 therne wind is that which blowes and cornts jrom^^u^' 

 ning zone , the which being fo neere thefunne , wfaiies wa 

 ter andpaftures. This is ^r/^^opinion^nd ifeiiJth, 

 mans coniedure can hardly pafle any farther -^fel^S^f^^v 

 I do often confider (with a Chriftian contemplar 11 ^ -*^ 

 how weake the Philofbphie of the wife of this 

 hath beene in thefearch of divine things , feeing in 

 humaine things (wherein they feeme fo well readj 

 they often erjre. Art ftot te holds,that the habitable earth 

 of the Tole Antartike* in longitude from Eaftto Weft 

 is very great, and in latitude from the Pole Antartike 



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