Hiftorieofthefndies. lib.2. 107 



for although the water be fait , yet is it alwayes water, 

 whofc nature is cold, and it is a thing remarkeable^hat 

 in the depth of the Ocean 3 the water cannot be made 

 hot by the violence of the Sunne, as in rivers : finally, 

 even as falt-peeter (though it be of the nature of -fait) 

 hath a propertie to coole water 5 even fo we fee by ex- 

 perience, that in fome ports and havens, the fait- water 

 doth refrefli- the which wee have obferved in that of 

 Ca/lao, whereas they put the water or wine which they 

 drinke,intotheSea in flaggons to berefreflied, where 

 by wee may vndoubtedly finde , that, the Ocean hath 

 this properties temper and moderate the exceffive 

 heate : for this caufe we feek greater heat at land then 

 at fea, C&terisf&ribut^ and commonly Countries lying 

 neere the Iea 5 are coooler then thofe that are farther off. 

 Ctcrisj>aribtM,a& I have faid,even fo the grea -teft part of 

 the new world, lying very neere the Ocean , wee may 

 with reafbn fay , although it bee vnder the burning 

 Zone 3 yet doth it receive a great benefite from the fea 

 to temper the heat. 



That the highett Undes tire tfa col&tfy md thereajo 



thereof. C H A. P . 12* 



BVt if we fhafl yet fearch more particularly,we fhall 

 notfindeinall this land an equall temperature of 

 heate,although it be in equal diftance from the fea,and 

 in the fame degree, feeing that in fome partes there is 

 great heate, and in fome , very little. Doubtle(Ie 5 the 

 caufe thereof is , that the one is lower, and the other 

 higher ; which caufeth that the one is hoce,and the o- 

 ther colde , It is mod certaine, that the toppes of the 



