Hiftorie of the Indies, lib. .3. 



of the faid Pilot,how he found the tides in the ftraight, 

 and if the tides of the South fea did fall whenas thofe 

 of the North did rife. Andcontrariwife (thisqueftion 

 being true) why the increafe of the fea in one place, is 

 the decreafe thereof in another,as the firft opinion hoi- 

 deth. Heanfweredthatitwasnotfo, but they might 

 fee plainely, that the tides of the North and South f eas 

 rife at one inftant, fb as the waves of one fea incountrcd 

 with the other , and at one inftan t likewife they began 

 to retire, every one into his fea, faying, that the rifing 

 and falling was daily feene, and that theincounterof 

 the tides (as I have faide) was at three fcore and tenne 

 leagues to the North fea, and thirtie to the South. 

 Whereby wee may plainely gather, that the ebbing 

 and flowing of the Ocean is no pure locall motion, but 

 rather an alteration : whereby all waters really rife and 

 increafe at one inftat, and in others, they diminish, as 

 the bpyling of a pot , whereof I have fpoken . It were 

 impdfiiblcto comprehend this poynt by experience, if 

 it were not in the Straight, where all the O ccan , both 

 on th'one fide,& on th'other ioynes together: for none 

 but Angelles can fee it,and iudge of theoppofite parts: 

 for that man hath not fo long a fight,nor fb nimble and 

 fwift footing as were needefull, to tranfporte his eyes 

 from one parte to another , in fo fliort a time, as a tide 

 will give him refpite,which are only fix hourcs. 



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Jry Ft (hers, and 'their tnaftcr offjhing at the 

 Indies. CHAP. 15. 



IHere are in the Indian Ocean > an infinite number 

 of fiflies, the kindes & properties whereof the Crc- 



M 2 ator 



