The S^jituralland Morall 



to Eaft,they alvvaics gnine of theday,findingthe funne 

 rifingfooncr : and contrarivvife, thoie that failefrorn 

 Eaft to Weft, do alwaiesloofeof the day , for that the 

 Sunne rifeth latef vnto tl em -and as they approach nee- 

 icr the Eaft or the Weft y they have the day longer or 

 fliorter.In Peru, which is weft ward in refpcft vfSpaine, 

 they are above fixehourcs behinde- fo as when itk 

 noon e in Spaixc ,. ins morning at Ptru^ and when it is 

 morning heere, it i . mid-night there. I have made cer- 

 tainc proofe thereof, by the computation of Eclip- 

 fo of the Sunne and Moone. Now that the Portugalls 

 have made their navigations from Weft to Eaft, and 

 the Gaftilhns from Eafl to Weft, when they came to 

 ioyneandm?eteat \hzPhiIipptnesmdMacan, the one 

 have gained twelve houres , and theothcr hath loft as 

 much; fo as at oneinftant, and in one time, they finde 

 the difference of twentie houres, which is a whole day; 

 (b as nccedarily , theone are at the third of Maie, when- 

 as the others accoumpt but thefecond; and whenas 

 the one doth faft forEafter eve, the others cate flefh 

 for the day of thcrefurre&ion. And if we will imagine 

 that they pafle farther , turning once againe about the 

 world, vfing thefime computation,when they fhould 

 returne to ioyne together, thtyfliould finde by the 

 fame accoumpt, two daies difference : for as I have 

 faide, thofe that go to the Sunne rifing , accoumpt the 

 day fooner, fot that the Sunne rifeth to them fooner y 

 and thofe that go to the fetting , accoumpt the day la 

 ter, for that it goes from them later : finally, the diver- 

 fitie of the noone tide, caufeth the divers reckoning of 

 the day. And now for as much as thofe that doefiilc 

 from Eaft to Weft, change their noone tide without 

 perceiving it,and yet ftill follow the fame computation 



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