148 THE KING'S MIRROR 



which the earth is habitable, and three under which it 

 is uninhabitable. 



Now all the land that lies under the zones between 

 the hot and the cold belts can be occupied; but it is 

 likely that owing to location the lands differ somewhat, 

 so that some are hotter than others; the hottest being 

 those that are nearest the torrid belt. But lands that 

 are cold, like ours, lie nearer the frigid zones, where the 

 frost is able to use its chilling powers. Now in my opinion 

 it seems most probable that the hot zone extends from 

 east to west in a curved ring like a flaming girdle around 

 the entire sphere. On the other hand, it is quite probable 

 that the cold zones lie on the outer edges of the world 

 to the north and south : and in case I have thought this 

 out correctly, it is not unlikely that Greenland lies under 

 the frigid belt; for most of those^who have visited Green- 

 land testify that there the cold has received its greatest 

 strength. Moreover, both sea and land bear testimony in 

 their very selves that there the frost and the overpower- 

 ing cold have become dominant, for both are frozen and 

 covered with ice in summer as well as in winter. 



It has been stated as a fact that Greenland lies on the 

 outermost edge of the earth toward the north; and I do 

 not believe there is any land in the home-circle beyond 

 Greenland, only the great ocean that runs around the 

 earth. And we are told by men who are informed that 

 alongside Greenland the channel is cut through which 

 the wide ocean rushes into the gap that lies between the 

 land masses and finally branches out into fjords and in- 

 lets which cut in between the lands wherever the sea is 

 allowed to flow out upon the earth's surface. 



