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Iceland^ the furtheft Parts of Riiffia and Norway y 

 would be deprived of the Sun, above an Hun- 

 dred and Thirty Days together. Our felves in 

 England, and the reft of the fame CHme, would 

 be clofed up in Darknefs no lefs than a Hundred, 

 or Eighty Days -, and fo proportionably of the 

 reft, both in and out of the Temperate Zones. 

 And as for Summer and Winter, though thofc 

 Viciflitudes would be, yet it could not but 

 taufe raging Difeafes, to have the Sun ftay fo 

 long, defcnbing his little Circles fo near the 

 Poles, and lying fo hot on the Inhabitants, that 

 had been in fo long Extremity of Darknefs and 

 Cold before. 



It remains therefore, that the Pofture of the 

 Axis of the Earth be inclining, not perpendicu- 

 lar, not co-incident to the fore-mention'd Plane. 

 And verily, it is not only inclining, but in fo fit 

 a Proportion, and there can be no £tter imagined 

 to make it, to the utmoft Capacity, as well plea- 

 fant as habitable. For though the Courfe of the 

 Sun be curbed between the Tropicks, yet are 

 not thofe Parts diredly fubjedi: to his perpendi- 

 cular Beams, either Unhabitable, or extremely 

 Hot, as the Ancients fancied : By the Teftimo- 

 ny of Travellers, and particularly Sir Walter 

 Raleigh, the Parts under and near the Line, 

 being as fruitful and pleafant, and fit to make 

 a Paradife of, as any in the World. And that 

 they are as. fultable to the Nature of Man, and 

 as 'convenient to live in, appears from the 



O 4 Longai- 



