^02 MEDITERRANEAN 11EM0RA. 



possessing the power of stopping a vessel in full 

 sail, so as to render it perfectly immoveable in 

 the midst of the sea. 



" Ventum est ad summa Naturae, &c." 



I shall give the translation in the words of 

 Philemon Holland. 



" Having so far proceeded in the discourse of 

 Nature's historie, that I am now arrived at the 

 very heigth of her forces, and come into a world 

 of examples, I cannot chuse but in the first place 

 consider the power of her operations, and the 

 infinitnesse of her secrets, which offer themselves 

 before our eyes in the Sea : for in no part else of 

 this universal frame is it possible to observe the 

 like majestie of Nature : insomuch as we need 

 not seeke any farther, nay we ought not to make 

 more search into her divinitie, considering there 

 cannot be found any thing equall or like unto 

 this one Element, wherein she hath surmounted 

 and gone beyond her own selfe in a wonderfull 

 number of respects. For first and foremost, Is 

 there any thing more violent than the Sea, and 

 namely when it is troubled with blustring winds, 

 whirlepuffs, storms and tempests ? or wherein hath 

 the wit of man been more employed (seeke out 

 all parts of the whole world) than in seconding 

 the waves and billows of the Sea, by saile and 

 ore ? Finally, is there ought more admirable than 

 the inenarrable force of the reciprocall tides of 

 the Sea, ebbing and flowing as it doth, whereby 

 it keepeth a current also, as it were the stream 

 of some great river ? 



