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welles. But with the helpe of God , wee will fliew the 

 reafbn why itraineth not in thefe Plaines ( the which 

 many demand-) for now I onely pretend to fliew,that 

 there are many exceptions tonaturall rules, whereby 

 it may happcn,rhat in fome part of the burning Zone, 

 it raincs not when the funne is ncereft , butbeing far- 

 theft off , although vnto this daie I have neither feene 

 nor heard of it:hut if it be fo , wee mufi attribute k to 

 the particular qualitie of the earth : andalfo, iffome- 

 times the contrarie doth chance 5 \ve muft have regard 

 that in naturall things there happens many contrari 

 eties and lets , whereby they change anddiffolve one 

 another. For example, it may be the funne will caufe 

 raine, and that the winds will hinder it, orelfe cauft 

 more aboundance then hath been vfiiail . The windes 

 have their properties and divers beginnings , by the 

 which they worke divers effeds , the which are moft 

 commonly contraiie to that which the order & fcafon 

 requires. Seeing then in all places we fee great varieties 

 in the yeere , which proceedes from the divers moti 

 ons and afpedes of Planets , it is not out of purpofc 

 to fay , that in theburningZone , wee may fee and ob- 

 ferve fbme things contrarie to that we have tried . But 

 to conclude , that which we have fpoken , is a certaine 

 andvndoubted truth, which is, thatthcgrcat draught 

 which the Ancients held to be in the middle region^ 

 which they call the burning Zone, is nothing at all: 

 but contrarivvife there is great humiditie , and then it 

 yaines moft ? when the funne is neereft. 



