theburning Zone we faile alvvaies from Eaft to Weaft, 

 with fo great facilitie, and not from Weaft to Eaft? 

 Which is as much as if wee fhould dcmaund, why the 

 Eafterly vvindes raine there, and not the Weafierly/or 

 that according to good Philofophic , that which is per- 

 petuall, vniverfall, andofitfelfe (asthePhilofophers 

 fayj muft have a proper caufe , and of it felfe . But be 

 fore I ftay at this queftion, which fecmes remarkeable, 

 it fhal be necefTary to fhew what we vnderftand by Bri- 

 fes or Eafterly windes, andWeafterly, for that it will 

 ferve much for this fubied, and for many other matters 

 touching windes and -navigations . The Pilotes make 

 two and thirty poyntsof windes,for that to bring their 

 fliip to the defired haven,they muft make their account 

 as punctually and as ftridly as they can; for bending to 

 the one fide, or the other, never fo little, in the end of 

 their courfe, tbey fhould finde themfelves farrefrom 

 their pretended place. And they reckon but twoo and 

 thirty quarters of the windes, for that more woulde 

 confound the memorie . But with reckoning as they 

 accompt two and thirty windes 5 fomay they -reckon*, 

 three fcore and foure, one hundred twenty and eight; 

 and two hundred fifty and fix. Finally, multiply thefe 

 panes to an infinite , for the place where the fhippc is> 

 being as it were the centre, and all hemifphere in cir 

 cumference , what fhould let , but wee may accompt 

 lines without number, the which comming from this 

 centre, drawediredly to thefelineall circles in fo many 

 partes, which might caufe as many diverfe windes, fee 

 ing that the winde comes from all partes of the hemi 

 fphere, which we may divide into as many parts as \ve 

 will imagine, yet the wifedomeof man, conformable 

 to the holy Scripture,obferves foure windes, the princt 



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