Hittorie of the Indie t. lib. 3* 



pall of all others, and as it were the foure corners of the 

 worldc, the which they ioyne in making a crofle with 

 two lines, whereof the one goes from one Pole to an 

 other; and the other from one Equinodiall to theo- 

 ther. Of the one fide theNorth or ^4<{mUn , and the 

 Southerne windc or mid-day oppofite ; and on the o* 

 ther fide the Eaft, which comes from theSunne rifing^ 

 and the Weaft from his fating. And although theholy 

 Scripture in fbme places fpeakes of other diverfities of 

 windes,as tfEurut and Aauik$y which thofe in the O- 

 cean fea call Nordeft, & they of the mediterranean fca, 

 GregH&l> whereof there is mention made in Saint Pauls- 

 navigation^ yet the fame holy Scripture makes menti ? 

 on ofthofe foure notable windes,which all the worlde 

 knowes j which areas is laide, North, South, Eaft and 

 Weaft. 



But for that we finde three differences in the rifing 

 of the Sunne , from whence the name of Eaft comes, 

 that is, the twogreateft declinings which he doth vfu- 

 ally make, and the meane betwixt them both, ashee 

 dooth rifein diverfe places, in winter, infummer, and 

 in that which Holdes the middle of thefetwofeafons. 

 For this reafon they have reckoned two other windes* 

 the Eaft of fummer,and the Eaft of winter; and by con- 

 fequence ? two Weafts, the one of fummer > and the o- 

 ther of winter , their contraries . So as there arc eight 

 windes in eight notable poyntes of heaven , which arc 

 thetwoPoles, the two Equinoxes, thetwoSolftices, 

 and their oppofites in the fame Circle, the which arc 

 called by divers names and appellations in every place 

 of the fea and land. Thofe which faile the Ocean, doe 

 vfually call them thus. They give the name of North 

 to thofe windes that blowcfrom our Pole, which cam- 



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