HtHorie of the Indies, lib.2. 87 



to September, for then hisbeamesbeatemoftvpon 

 them . The like happens at the Eaft Indies, as we learnc 

 daily by letters that come. Soasitisagenerallrule, 

 (although in ipme places there is an exception) that in 

 the Region of the South or burning Zons y which is all 

 one, the airc is aioft cleere and drieft , whenas the Sun 

 is fartheft off; and contrariwife 5 when it approcheth, 

 there is greateft rayne and humiditie : and even as the 

 Sunne advanceth or retyreth little or much^ven fo the 

 eath abounds or wants water and moifture. 



That in the Regions which be without the Tropicks,there 

 if greatcftftore of waters , whenas the Sunne is far 

 thest off , contrary to that vnder the burning Zone. 

 CHAP. 4. 



IN Regions which lie without theTropicks, we fee 

 the contrary to that which hath beene fpoken : 

 for that the rayneis mingled with cold, & the drought 

 with heate, the which is well knowne in all Europe and 

 the old world, as we fee in* the fame manner in f he new 

 world, whereof the whole Kingdome of -Cfo'&isa wit- 

 nefle, which lying without the Tropicke QfCapricorne^ 

 and in the fame height with Spaine , is fubicd to the 

 fame lawes of Winter and Summer , but that Winter 

 is there 3 whenas it is Summer in Spune, being vnder di 

 vers Poles. So as when it is cold in thefc Provinces, the 

 waters are in great aboundance , which is , when the 

 Sunne is fartheft off, fromthebeginningof Aprill, to 

 the end of September: finally,thedifpoiition of f:a- 

 fons is like to that in Europe, which is,that the heat and 

 drought comes whenas the Sunne returnes, which is 



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