table nor more temperate.Answers. And to conclude I thinke the same shoulde bee founde vnder the North, if it were experimented. A true opinion.For as all iudge, Nihil fit vacuum in rerum natura: So I iudge there is no lande inhabitable, nor Sea innauigable. If I should write the reason that presenteth this vnto mee, I shoulde bee too prolixe, and it seemeth not requisite for this present matter. God knoweth that though by it I shoulde haue no great interest, yet I haue had and still haue no little minde of this businesse:A voyage of discouerie by the pole. So that if I had facultie to any will, it shoulde bee y͏ͤ first thing that I woulde vnderstande, euen to attempt, if our Seas Northwarde bee nauigable to the Pole, or no. I reason, that as some sicknesses are hereditarious, & come from the father to the sonne, so this inclination or desire of this discouerie I inherited of my father, which with another merchant of Bristowe named hugh EliotM. Thorne and M. Eliot discouerers of New found land. were the discouerers of the newe found lãds, of the which there is no doubt, as now plainly appeareth, if the marriners woulde then haue been ruled, and folowed their pilots mind, the lands of the west Indies, from whence all the gold commeth, had beene ours.The cause why the west Indees were not ours: which also Sebastian Gabot writeth in an epistle to Baptist Ramusius. For all is one coaste, as by the carde appeareth, and is aforesaide. Also in this carde by the coastes where you see C. your Lordship shall vnderstand it is set for Cape or head land, where I, for Iland, where P. for Port, where R. for Riuer. Also in al this little carde I thinke nothing be erred touching the situation of the land, saue onely in these Ilands of spicery: which, for that as afore is sayd, euery one setteth them after his minde, that there can be no certification how they stand. I doe not denie, that there lacke many things, that a consũmate carde should haue, or that a right good demonstration desireth. For there should be expressed all the mountaines and riuers that are principall of name in the earth, with the names of Portes of the sea, the names of all principall cities, whiche all I might haue set, but not in this Carde, for the little space would not consent.
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