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rence which we fee betwixt Winter and Summer,pro- 

 ceeds from the neereneffe and diftance of the Sunne, 

 according to the motion of the faid Sunne , which is 

 the proper caufe. To fpeake trueth then, it is Summer 

 whenas theSanne is neercft, and Winter when it is 

 fartheft off. Both heate and coldne(Te,and every other 

 temperature, growes of neceffitie , by the neerenefic 

 and diftance of the funnc-but to iaine 5 or not to raine, 

 which is hunuditie and drought, doe notneceffarily 

 follow. It is therefore eafie to iudgefbefidcs this vulgar 

 opinion) that at Pcnijht Winter is cleere and without 

 raine, and the Summer full of fhowres^and not other- 

 wife, as many beleeve, that the winter is hotte,and the 

 fummer cold. They fall into the like error, vponthe 

 difference they make betwixt the Plaines and the 

 Mountaines of Peru , faying , that when it is fummer 

 vpon the mountaine, it is winter in the vallie, which is 

 in April 5 Maie, June , luly , and Auguft : for then the 

 aire is very cleere vpon the mountaine , without any 

 raine or miftes,and at the fame feafbn , we commonly 

 fee foggesin the plaine, which they call Guarva, which 

 is as it were a very fweet dew wherewith the funne is 

 covered. But winter and fummer , as it is faid, are cau- 

 fed by the neerencfTe and diftance of the funne. See 

 ing then that throughout all Pern , both vpon the 

 Mountaines and on the PIaines,the funne approcheth 

 and retyreth in one fort , there is no reafbn to fay, that 

 when it is fummer in one part, that it h winter in an o- 

 ther s yet is it no matter of any importance,to contend 

 vpon thefignification of words: Let them terme them 

 as they pleafe ? and call that fummer when it raines not, 

 although the heat be greater. But that, whereunto we 

 mufthavegreateft regard, is the trueth of thefqbiecft, 



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