26 The lecond Booke of 



of Elephants) the felfefatlic is to beiecne45 daies before the Summer Sunftead, and as long Q 

 after; and that for daies fpacCj all fliadowcs arecaft into the South. Againe, in the Hand 

 Meroc, which is the capitall place of the -Ethiopian nation^ and is inhabited 5000 ftadia from 

 Sycne upon the river Nilus ^ twice in the yeere the fhadowes are gone, and none at all fecne : to 

 wit, when thefunncisinthe iSdcgreeof T'^«r//^3andinthei4 of Leo. Inthecountrcy of the 

 Oreteswidiin India, there is a mountaine named Maleus, neere unto which the fhadowes in 

 ' Summer are caft into the South, and in winter to the North. There, tot 1 5 nights and no niprej 

 is the ftarre Charles- wainc ncere thepolctobe feenc. In thefame India, at Pataks (a mott fa- 

 mous and frequented port) theSunne arifethonthe right hand, and all fhadowes fall to the 

 South. Whiles Ly^lexander msidc abode there, <5;?(/;Vr/>/^'acaptaineof his^wrotethatitwas 

 obferved there. That the North ftarre was feene the firil: part only ofthe night :alfo in what pla- Ji 

 CCS of India there were no fhadowes, there the North ilarrcappcared not : and that ihofe quar- 

 without tcrs were called * /ifiiit^ndthci kept they any reckoning of houres there* 



Chap, ixxiin. 

 "^Wherettvifehtheyeere^thefhadomspecmirariemies, 



"DVt throughout all Trogliditinc, Cratojlhenes hath written j that the fhadowes two times a 

 yeerefor 45 daics^ fall contrary waies. 



Chap. lixv. | 

 ^ where the day is longefl^ and where jhorteH^ 



|Tcommeththus 10 pafTe, that by the variable increment of the day-light, thclongcft 

 wday in Mcroe doth comprehend 12 Equino(Sfiall houres, and eight parts of one hourc 

 "above: but in Alexandria 14 houres, in Italic 1 5, in Britaine 17: where, in Summer 

 time the nights being light and fhort^by infallible experience fhew that which reafonforccth to 

 beleeve : namely, thatatMidfummertimeastheSunncapprocheth ncere to the pole of the 

 worldjthe places of the earth lying underneath,baih day continually for fix moneths : and con- 

 trariwife night,when the Sunne is remote as farre as Bruiua.The ^^hich^Pphias ofMaiTsles hath 

 written of Thule, an Ifland diftant Northward from Brittaine fixe daies failing: yca,and fomc % 

 alfirmc the fame ofMona,which is an Ifland diftant from Camalodunum^a towne of Brittaine^ 

 about two hundred miles. 



Chap, l x x v i . Of Dials and ^adrants. 



His cunning of fhadowes and skill named Gnonomice, Anaximenesxhs. Milefian, the 

 difciple ol Anaximander abovenamed, invented :and he was the firfl alfo that fbewed ia 

 Lacedxmon the Horologe or Dialljwhich they call Sciotericon. 



Chap, Lxxvii. ^ Horvt^e daies are ohfirved, 



jHe very day it felfe men have after diverfe manners obferved. The Babylonians count ^ 

 |for day all the time betwcene two funne rifings. The Athenians, betweene the fettings. 

 JThe Vmbrians froii noone to noone.But all the common fort every where,fi:om day- 

 light untill it be darke. The RomanePrieffs,andthofe that have defined and fet out a 

 civile day, hkewife the ^Egyptians and H^pparehu^ fiom midnight to midnight. That the fpaces 

 betwcene Iights,are greater of leffe betwixt Sunne rifings,neer the Sunne-ff eedsjthan the equi- 

 no<5lials,it appeareth by this, that the pofition of the Zodiake about the middle parts thereof, is 

 niorc oblique and crooked,but toward the Sunne-ff eed more ff reightand dired, ^ 



Chap, lxxviii, 

 }^ The reafon of the varktie and difference of fundrie countries and nations ^ 



|Ereunto we muft ai- n ?x and join fuch things as are linked to coeleftiall caufes.Fdr doubt- 

 meffe itiSjthatthe^t'iyopiansbyreafonoFtheSunnes vicinitie, are fcorched and tan- 

 Mied with the heat thereof, like to them that be aduft and burnt, having their beards and 

 bufhof haite curled. Alfb^ihat inthccomrarie clime of the world coit^in the frozen and iciere- 

 " " ^ ~ gions 



