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the one and the other will willingly yeeld , in noting 

 the certaine experience of that which hath becne iayd 

 of tins part of Peru , which looks to the Southerne or 

 dntartikc Pole: the Sunneis then fat theft off, when it is 

 neereft vnto Europe,\hzt is, in Maie,Iune,Iuly and Au- 

 guft , whenas heeimkes his courfe in the Tropicke of 

 C^AT.During which Moneths>theaire at Peru is very 

 cleere and calme , neyther doth there fall any fnow or 

 raine all their rivers fall much, and fomeare dried vp 

 quite: but as they cere increafeth, and the Sunne ap- 

 procheth neerevnto the Tropicke of Capri corne, then 

 begins it to raine and to fnow, and their Rivers fwell 

 from Odober to December. Then after that the Sun 

 retyring from Capricorm , whenas his beames refleft 

 diredly vpon the heads of them of Peru, then is the 

 violence of their waters great then is the time of raine, 

 fnowj and great overflowings of their Rivers , when 

 as their heatc is greateft, that is 5 from lanuarie to mid 

 Marchrthis is fo trueand certainc,as no man may con- 

 tradid it. And at that time the contrary is found in the 

 Regions of the Pole Anicke , beyond the-E^/^^w//, 

 which proceeds from the fame rcafon. But let vs now 

 lookeinto the temperature of Panama &all that coaft, 

 as well of new Spaine , the Hands of Barlovent , Cuba^ 

 Hifpamola, Jamaica, as of S.lohn de Port ricco, wee fliall 

 without doubt finde,that from the beginning of No- 

 vemHer^vntillAprill, they have the aire cleere and 

 bright; the reafon is , for that the Sunne paffing by the 

 Equmottialitv the Tropicke ofCapncor^e^ctyrcs from 

 thofe Regions more then at any other time of the 

 yeere. And contrariwife, they have violent ihovVcrs 

 and great fwellings of water, whenas the Sunne re- 

 turnes and is neereft vnto them, which is from Rine 5 vn- 



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