Jib. 3, 



which deapth, the waves breake, and arefwallowed vp. 

 It is true,that in win ter the flraigh t is not navigable,by 

 rcafbn of the tcmpef ts and raging of thefea in that fea~ 

 fon . Some fhippes which have attempted to pafle the 

 Straight in winter, haveperiflied . Oneonelyfhippe 

 pafled it on the South fide , which is the Captaine I 

 made mention of. I was fully inftru&edofallthatl 

 have fpokcn by the Pilote thereof, called Hcrnando A- 

 /o#/?,aiid have feene the true difcription of the Straight 

 they made in paflTing it , whereof they carried the co- 

 pie to the King ofspaine, and the original to their vice- 

 royof/Vm 



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Of the tWiflg And flowing of the Indun Occw. 

 CHAP. 14. 



INc of the moft admirable fecrets of Nature is the 

 ebbing and flowing of the fea , not onely for this 

 ftrange property of rifing and falling , but much more 

 for the difference there is thereof in diverfe feas , yea in 

 diverfe coaftes of one and the fame fea. There are fome 

 feas that have no daily flowing nor ebbing, as we fee in 

 the inner Mediterranean, which is fatThyrene fea,and 

 yet it flovves and cbbes every day in the vpper Mediter 

 ranean fea, which is that of Venice , and iuftlygiveth 

 caufc of admiration, that thcfetwo feas being Medi- 

 terrancan,and that of Venict being no greater then the 

 other,yet hath it his ebbing and flowing as the Ocean, 

 and that other fea of Italic noneatall. There arefbmc 

 Mediterranean feas, that apparantly rife and fall everie 

 moneth 5 and others that ney ther rife in the day , nor 

 I in the moneth. There are other feas, astheSpanifhO- 



M cean, 



