the diuision of the degrees beginneth, & endeth in y͏ͤ same Capo verde.To knowe the Longitudes. Nowe to knowe in what longitude any lande is, you Lordeshippe must take a ruler or a compasse, and set the one foote of the compasse vpon the lande or coast whose longitude you woulde knowe, and extende the other foote of the compasse to the nexte parte of one of the transuersall lines in the Orientall or Occidentall part: which done, set the one foote of the compasse in the saide transuersall lyne at the ende of the nether scale, the scale of longitude, and the other foote sheweth the degree of longitude that the region is in. And your Lordshippe must vnderstande that this carde though little conteyneth the vniuersall whole worlde betwixte the twoo collaterall lines, the one in the Occidentall parte descendeth perpendicular vppon the 175. degree, and the other in the Orientall on the 170. degree, whose distaunce measureth the scale of longitude. And that whiche is without the two sayde transuersall lynes is onely to shew howe the Oriental part is ioyned with the Occident, & Occident with the Orient. For that that is set without the line on the Orient parte, is the same that is set within the other line in the Occidentall parte: and againe that that is sette without the line in the Occidentall part, is the same that is set within the line in the Orientall part: To shewe that though this figure of the worlde in playne or flat seemeth to haue an ende, yet one imagining that this sayde carde were set vpon a round thing, where the endes shoulde touche by the lines, it would plainely appeare howe the Orient part ioyneth with the Occident, as there without the lines it is described & figured. And for more declaration of the said card, your Lordship shall vnderstand, that beginning on the parte Occidentall within the lyne, the first land that is set out, is y͏ͤ mayne land & Iland of the Indies of y͏ͤ Emperour. Which mayne lande or coast goeth Northwarde, and finisheth in the lande that wee founde, whiche is calle heere Terra de Labrador. So that it appeareth the sayde lande that wee founde and the Indies to bee all one mayne lande. Thesayd
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