Htilorie of the Indies* lib. 3. 151 



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Of the Ocean that invirons the Indies, Adtfthe North 

 and South Sw. CHAP. ic. 



A Mongft all waters the Ocean is the principaH, by 

 ./JLwhich the Indies have beene difcovered , and are 

 invironed therewith $ for either they be Hands of the 

 Ocean fea, ormaine land ?i the which wherefbever it 

 ends, is bounded with this Ocean. To this day they 

 have not difcovered at the Indies any meditcrranian fea y 

 as in Eurofe,Afia#n& Ajfrike, into the which there en 

 ters fbme arme of this great fea^nd makes diftindl feas> 

 taking their names from the Provinces they bathe.-and 

 almoft all the mediterranean Seas continue and ioync 

 together, and with the Ocean it felfe, by the ftraight of 

 tf/Ir4//4r,whkh the Ancients called, the Fillers of Her- 

 fffles , although the red fea beeing feparated from the 

 mediterranean feas r enters alone intarfte Indian Oce 

 an- and the Cafpian fea ioynes not with any other :fo 

 that at thc/W/^weefinde notanie other fea then this 

 Ocean,which they divide into two, the one they call 

 the north fca>arid the other the fbuth/or that the Indies 

 which were firft difcovered by the Ocean,and reacheth 

 vnto Spaine,\i&> all to the north,and by that land there 

 after difcovered a fea on the other fide, the which they 

 called the South fea , for that they decline vntill they 

 have pafled the Line : and having loft the North, or 

 Polearticke, they called it South . For this caufe they 

 have called all that Ocean the South fea, which lieth 

 on the other fide of the Eaft Indies, althogh a great parr 

 of it be feated to the north,as al the coaft crfnewJ/w*% 

 Nuara$nii,Gttatimal4iLn&Panama. They fay, thathee 

 that firft difcovered this fea, was called 



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