The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I — John Shaqi
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
[Sidenote: Quicquid naturali loco priuatur, quam citisimè corrumpitur.]
[Sidenote: Qualis causa, talis effectus.] 2 Also, it standeth scarcely with
reason, that the Indians dwelling vnder Torrida Zone, could endure the
iniurie of the cold ayre, about the Septentrional latitude of 80. degrees,
vnder which eleuation the passage by the Northeast cannot bee (as the often
experience had of all the South parts of it sheweth) seeing that some of
the inhabiants of this cold climate (whose Summer is to them an extreme
Winter) haue bene stroken to death with the cold damps of the aire about 72
degrees, by an accidental mishap, and yet the aire in such like Eleuation
is alwaies cold, and too cold for such as the Indians are.
3 Furthermore, the piercing cold of the grosse thicke aire so neere the
Pole wil so stiffen and furre the sailes and ship tackling, that no mariner
can either hoise or strike them (as our experience farre neerer the South,
then this passage is presupposed to be, hath taught vs) without the vse
whereof no voiage can be performed.
4 Also the aire is so darkened with continuall mists and fogs so neere the
Pole, that no man can well see, either to guide his ship, or direct his
course.
5 Also the compasse at such eleuation doth very suddenly vary, which things
must of force haue bene their destructions, although they had bene men of
much more skill then the Indians are.
[Sidenote: Similium similis est ratio.] 6 Moreouer, all baies, gulfes, and
riuers doe receiue their increase vpon the flood, sensibly to be discerned
on the one side of the shore or the other, as many waies as they be open to
any main sea, as Mare Mediterraneum, Mare Rubrum, Sinus Persicus, Sinus
Bodicus, Thamesis, and all other knowen hauens or riuers in any part of the
world, and each of them opening but on one part to the maine sea, doe
likewise receiue their increase vpon the flood the same way, and none
other, which Mare Glaciale doeth, onely by the West, as M. Ienkinson
affirmed vnto me: and therefore it followeth that this Northeast sea,
receiuing increase but onely from the West, cannot possibly open to the
maine Ocean by the East.
7 Moreouer, the farther you passe into any sea towards the end of it, on
that part which is shut vp from the maine sea (as in all those aboue
mentioned) the lesse and lesse the tides rise and fall. The like whereof
also happeneth in Mare Glaciale, which proueth but small continuance of
that sea toward the East.
[Sidenote: Quicquid corrumpitur à contrario corrumpítur.] 8 Also, the
further yee goe toward the East in Mare Glaciale, the lesse salt the water
is: which could not happen, if it were open to the salt Sea towards the
East, as it is to the West only, seeing Euery thing naturally ingendreth
his like: and then must it be like salt throughout, as all the seas are, in
such like climate and eleuation.[42]
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