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pernicious difleines , without doubt they might live 

 at the Indies very pleafant and happily : for that which 

 other Poets fingof the Elifean fields and of the famous 

 Tempe, or that which Plau reports or faines of his At* 

 /<*//& Hand; menfhould findeinthefelands 5 ifwitha 

 generous fpirit they would choofe rather to com 

 mand their filver and their defires, then to remaine 

 flavesastheyare. That which wee have hitherto diP 

 courfed,(hal fuifice touching the qualities of the Equi- 

 nodiall, of colde, heat, drought, raine, and the caufes 

 of temperature. The particular difcourfe of windes, 

 waters, landes, mettalls, plants, and hearts, ^whereof 

 there is great aboundance at the Indies,} {hall re- 

 jraine for the other bookcs^for the difficultie of that 

 which is handled in this, though briefly. 

 Will happily feeme too 

 tedious. 



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