And therefore, until judicious and ocular experiment confirm or distinguish the assertion, that bodies do not sink herein at all, we do not yet believe; that they not easily, or with more difficulty descend in this than other water, we shall readily assent. But to conclude an impossibility from a difficulty, or affirm whereas things not easily sink, they do not drown at all; beside the fallacy, is a frequent addition in humane expression, and an amplification not unusual as well in opinions as relations; which oftentimes give indistinct accounts of proximities, and without restraint transcend from one another. Thus, forasmuch as the torrid Zone was conceived exceeding hot, and of difficult habitation, the opinions of men so advanced its constitution, as to conceive the same unhabitable, and beyond possibility for man to live therein. Thus, because there are no Wolves in _England_, nor have been observed for divers generations, common people have proceeded into opinions, and some wise men into affirmations, they will not live therein, although brought from other Countries. Thus most men affirm, and few here will believe the contrary, that there be no Spiders in _Ireland_; but we have beheld some in that Country; and though but few, some Cob-webs we behold in Irish wood in _England_. Thus the Crocodile from an egg growing up to an exceeding magnitude, common conceit, and divers Writers deliver, it hath no period of encrease, but groweth as long as it liveth. And thus in brief, in most apprehensions the conceits of men extend the considerations of things, and dilate their notions beyond the propriety of their natures. In the Mapps of the dead Sea or Lake of _Sodom_, we meet with the destroyed Cities, and in divers the City of _Sodom_ placed about the middle, or far from the shore of it; but that it could not be far from _Segor_, which was seated under the mountains neer the side of the Lake, seems inferrible from the sudden arrival of _Lot_, who coming from _Sodom_ at day break, attained _Segor_ at Sun rising; and therefore _Sodom_ to be placed not many miles from it, and not in the middle of the Lake, which is accounted about eighteen miles over; and so will leave about nine miles to be passed in too small a space of time. CHAPTER XVI Of divers other Relations.