same latitude, and Ireland, very moist, warm, and more temperate in winter than Spain, Italy, or France.  Is it the sea that causeth this difference, and the air that comes from it:  Why then is [3056]Ister so cold near the Euxine, Pontus, Bithynia, and all Thrace; frigidas regiones Maginus calls them, and yet their latitude is but 42. which should be hot:  [3057] Quevira, or Nova Albion in America, bordering on the sea, was so cold in July, that our [3058]Englishmen could hardly endure it.  At Noremberga in 45. lat. all the sea is frozen ice, and yet in a more southern latitude than ours.  New England, and the island of Cambrial Colchos, which that noble gentleman Mr. Vaughan, or Orpheus junior, describes in his Golden Fleece, is in the same latitude with little Britain in France, and yet their winter begins not till January, their spring till May; which search he accounts worthy of an astrologer:  is this from the easterly winds, or melting of ice and snow dissolved within the circle arctic; or that the air being thick, is longer before it be warm by the sunbeams, and once heated like an oven will keep itself from cold?  Our climes breed lice, [3059] Hungary and Ireland male audiunt in this kind; come to the Azores, by a secret virtue of that air they are instantly consumed, and all our European vermin almost, saith Ortelius.  Egypt is watered with Nilus not far from the sea, and yet there it seldom or never rains:  Rhodes, an island of the same nature, yields not a cloud, and yet our islands ever dropping and inclining to rain.  The Atlantic Ocean is still subject to storms, but in Del Zur, or Mare pacifico, seldom or never any.  Is it from tropic stars, apertio portarum, in the dodecotemories or constellations, the moon’s mansions, such aspects of planets, such winds, or dissolving air, or thick air, which causeth this and the like differences of heat and cold?  Bodin relates of a Portugal ambassador, that coming from [3060]Lisbon to [3061]Danzig in Spruce, found greater heat there than at any time at home.  Don Garcia de Sylva, legate to Philip III., king of Spain, residing at Ispahan in Persia, 1619, in his letter to the Marquess of Bedmar, makes mention of greater cold in Ispahan, whose lat. is 31. gr. than ever he felt in Spain, or any part of Europe.  The torrid zone was by our predecessors held to be uninhabitable, but by our modern travellers found to be most temperate, bedewed with frequent rains, and moistening showers, the breeze and cooling blasts in some parts, as [3062]Acosta describes, most pleasant and fertile.  Arica in Chile is by report one of the sweetest places that ever the sun shined on, Olympus terrae, a heaven on earth:  how incomparably do some extol Mexico in Nova Hispania, Peru, Brazil, &c., in some again hard, dry, sandy, barren, a very desert, and still in the same latitude.  Many times we find great diversity of air in the same [3063]country, by reason of the site to seas, hills or dales, want of water,