ii o The Jtyturalland Morall 



very familiar and well knowne, leaving the reft aparte; 

 In the canicular dayes we are accaftotned to beate the 

 ayre with a fanne, and we finde that it doth refrefh vs- 

 fo as thefe Authors affirme,that heate is no private pro 

 perty of any other Element/but of fire only, which is 

 * difperfed and mingled with all things (as the great D<r- 



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vi* doth teach vs.) But whether it be lo , or otherwift 

 (for I will not contradict Arifofle, but in that which is 

 mod certaine) in the end they agree all, that the mid 

 dle region of the ayre is colder than the loweft next to 

 the earth, as experience dooth fliew vs - feeing that itv 

 this middle region are congealed, fhowe, haile, frofts, 

 and other fignes of extreame colde. The middle regi 

 on then which they call the burning Zone , having on 

 the one fide the fea , and on the other the mountaines, 

 we muft hold them for fufficient caufes to temper ajnd 

 coole the heate. 



the colde windes be the fritteipallcaufito mtkt the 

 burning Zone temftr Ate. C H A H. 13, 



THe temperature of this region ought chiefly to be 

 attributed to the property of the wind that blows 

 in that country, the which is pleafantandfrefli. The 

 providence of the great God Creator of al things hath 

 bin fuch,as he hath ordained frefh and coole windes in 

 that region where the funne makes his courfe ( which 

 feemes fhould be burnt vp ) that by their coolenes the 

 exceffive heate of the funne might be qualified . And 

 they are not farre from apparance of reafbn , which 

 held that the earthly Paradife was vnderthe Equino- 

 . If they had not deceived themfelves in the caufe 



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