1% ' The fcGond Booke of 



clcancXaft of all^the very Oceanjwhich we cbnfefle to bee the utmoft and (mhcd bound envi- Q 

 toning the whole globe,by what other figure els could it bold together and not fall downe/mce 

 there is nobankc beyond it to keepc it in ? And even this alfo commtth about to bee as great a 

 wonder,hovvitcommeth to pajflfejalthough the Tea grow to be roundj diat the utmoft edoe ther- 

 offalleth not dowoe ? Againft which.if that the Teas were even jflat^and plainCjand of thai forme 

 astheyfecme tobejtheGreekePhilofopherstotheirownegreat joyand gloiie doe conclude: 

 & prove by Geometdcalirubtile demonftration^that it cannot polTibly bethat the water ftiould 

 faliiFor feeing that waters run naturally from aloft to the lower parts, and that al] men confefle, 

 that this is their nature^and no man doubtetb that the water oi ihefeajcameeverin any lliorefo 

 farre as the devexitic would have futfered : doubtlefle it appeareth^ that the lower a thing is, the 

 ticerer it is to the centrejand that all the lines which from thence are fent out to the next waters, H 

 are fhorter than thofe which from the firft waters read? to the utmoft extremity of the fea.Here- 

 upon the whole water, from every part thereof^ bendeth to the centrcjand therefore falleth not 

 away jbecaufe it inclineth naturally to the inner parts.And this we muft beleevcj that Nature the 

 workemaiftris framed and ordained Ib^to the end that the carthjwhich being dricjcould not by ic 

 jfelfe alone without fome moifture,keepeany confiftence 5 and the water likewife could not abide 

 andftay, unleffetheearth upheld it : in which regard they were mutually to embrace oneano- 

 ther^and fo be unitedjwhiles thaone opened all the creekes and noukes^and the other ran whol- 

 ly into the other 5by the meanes offecret veines within,without and abovejlikeligamentstoelalp 

 it, yea3& lb break out at the upmoft tops of the hils:whether being partly carried by a fpiritjand 

 partly exprefled forth by the ponderofitie of the earth jit mounteth as it were in pipes : and fo far I 

 is it off from danger of failing away, that it leapeth up to the highefl and loftieft things that bee;, 

 By which reafon it is evident alfo, why the feas iweU not and grow, notwithflanding fo many ri* ' 

 vers daily run into them. 



Chap, lxvi. 



^ Now. the water is united and knit to the earthy 



He earth therefore in his whole globe is in the middefl thereof, hemmed in with the fea^ 

 running round about it. And this needcth not to be fought out by reafon & argumenta 

 for it is knownealreadie by good proofs and experience, K 



Chap, txvii. 



^ ^a'u/gatiofi upeft the fea an d great riven > 



»(^*J^?isRom Gades and ^^'r^«/« pillars, the Wef^fea is at this day navigable, and failed all 

 ^^■^^over,eventhe whole compailc of Spaine and France.But the North Ocean vjas for the 

 ^^'^l^moftpartdifcovered, undertheconduGlof^^^^^^C^j^r of famous memories who 

 with a fleet compaffed all Germanie^and brought it about as farre as to the cape of the 

 Cimbriansrand fo from thence having kenned and viewed the vaft S^- v^ide feajOr els taken know- _ 

 ledge therof by reportjhe pafTed to the Scythian climate and thofe cold coafls,frozen & aboun- 

 ding v^ith too much moifture.For which caufe there is no likelyhoodsthat in thofe parts the feas 

 arc at an end,whereas there isfuch exceffive wet that all flands wjith water.And neer unto itfrom 

 thcEaftjOut ofthe Indian fea,that whole part under the fame clime of the wodd which bendeth 

 toward the Cafpianfea,was failed throughout by the Macedonian armies^when^e/^^t^^ & An- 

 tiochm reigned,who would needs have it fb,that Sdcuctis & Animhi,i.s iliould beare their names* 

 About the Calpian fea alfb many coafls and ftores of the Ocean have been difcovered, and by 

 peecemeale, rather than all whole at once, the North of one fide or other, hathbeene failed 

 or towed over , Butyet to put all out of conjecture, there is a great argument collected by the 

 Mecre M^otis, whether it bee a gulfe and arme of that Ocean (as I perceive many have be- 

 Icevcd^ or an overflowing of the fame, and devided from it by a narrow peeceof the conti- M 

 nent. In another fide of Gades from the fame, Wefl, a great part of the South or Meridian 

 goulfe,round aboutMauritaniaisatthis day failed . And the greater part verily of it,like as 

 of the Eaft alfo , the vidories of great i^lexander viewed and compafled on everic fide, 

 even as farre as to the Arabian goulfc. Wherein, when CajmCefar^thQ ionxiQol Augufimy 



warred 



