Tie 3\(atiiralland Moral! 



over vs. In truth on this continent, where the land 

 and fea are of one fort , wee cannot imagine any other 

 caufe of this fo great a difference,but the qualitie of the 

 windewhich doth refrefh them. If wee (hall ncerely 

 looke into the conlideration of the winde , whereof 

 we have fpoken, wee may refolve many doubts which 

 fbme obie<S,and which fceme ftrangeand wonderfull: 

 wherefore the Sunne catling his -beames vppon the 

 burning Zone, and particularly ttfew, a$d that more 

 violently then in Spaixrin the Canicular daies,yet they 

 defend the heat with alight covering,fo as witha flen~ 

 der covering of mats or ftraw , they arc better prefer- 

 vcd from the heate , then in Spaine vnder a roofe of 

 wood, or a vault of ftone. Moreover, why are not the 

 nightes in fummer at Pew, ashotte and troublefbmc 

 as in S faint * Wherefore on the higheft tops of moun- 

 taines,cven amongft the heaps of fnow,you fliall fbme- 

 times feele greatand infupportable heater Wherefore in 

 all the Province of C0w,when yecomeinto the (hade, 

 how little fo ever, you feele cold : But comming into 

 the Sunne beames , you prefently finde the heate ex- 

 cdfive t Why is all the coaft of Pm/,being ful of fands, 

 very temperate ? And why is Potozi fdiftant from the 

 filver Citie but eighteene leagues , and in the fame de 

 gree) of fo divers a temperature, that the Countrie be 

 ing extreamely colde, it is wonderfully barren and 

 drie? And contrariwife, the filver Citie is temperate, 

 inclining vnto heat,and hath a pleaiant and fertilfoik^ 

 It is more certaine , that the winde is the principal! 

 caufe of thefeflrange diversities* for without thebene- 

 fite of thefe coole windes, the heate of the Sunne is 

 fuch , as (although it bee in the midft of the fnow,) it 

 burncs and fets ail on fire:but when the coolencs of the 



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