The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeares, Volume 5J.M. Dent, 1910 |
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Page 172
... Equinoctial ) all that whole Bay is more subject to many blooming and smoothering heates , with infectious and contagious ayres , then any other place in all Torrida Zona : and the cause thereof is some accidents in the land . For it is ...
... Equinoctial ) all that whole Bay is more subject to many blooming and smoothering heates , with infectious and contagious ayres , then any other place in all Torrida Zona : and the cause thereof is some accidents in the land . For it is ...
Page 175
... Equinoctial ; by this continuance the heat is increased , for it shineth to us 16. or 18. houres some- time , when it continueth with them but twelve houres alwayes . And againe , our night is very short wherein cold vapours use to ...
... Equinoctial ; by this continuance the heat is increased , for it shineth to us 16. or 18. houres some- time , when it continueth with them but twelve houres alwayes . And againe , our night is very short wherein cold vapours use to ...
Page 189
... Equinoctial circle for their Horizon : therefore the Sun entring into the North signes , and describing every 24 houres a parallel to the Equinoctiall by the diurnall motion of Primum mobile , the same parallels must needs be wholly ...
... Equinoctial circle for their Horizon : therefore the Sun entring into the North signes , and describing every 24 houres a parallel to the Equinoctiall by the diurnall motion of Primum mobile , the same parallels must needs be wholly ...
Contents
THE PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONSContinued | 9 |
The voyage of Sebastian Cabota to the North part of America | 58 |
A briefe extract concerning the discovery of Newfoundland | 68 |
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