the Sun is successively vertical, or directly over their Heads, as you easily see by the Globe he will be.
Yes, yes, said she, I understand that very well; but I can't help reflecting upon the Arrogance, as well as Ignorance, of the Ancients, in supposing their Knowledge to be the Bounds of all things; and glad I am that we know something which they did not; for I have heard them so much cried up, now and then, by Authors, that I could almost wish my self to have lived among them; but I will, at last take Comfort, and thank God that I am a Modern, and alive now.—But pray go on about your Zones.
These two Spaces of the Earth, said I, Madam, which lie between the Tropicks and the Polar Circles, each Way North and South, the old Geographers called the Temperate.Temperate Zones; and as these Oriental Sages, and the Learned Greeks and Romans, lived (as you [1]see here) in one of them, so they did allow the other to be habitable also.
That was pretty good-natur'd, said she, for I suppose they never saw theSouth-
- ↑ Here on the Terrestrial Globe I shewed her the chief Places of the Græcian and Roman Empires.
