M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme.

Of those that dwell right vnder the Pole. Chap. 25.

WHat seasons, shadowes, and length of day haue they that dwell right vnder the Pole, if there be anie such people?

Truely you doe well to doubt thereof, for in mine opinion humane nature is not able to suffer the extreme cold that by reason must néedes be in those parts, neither do I thinke that euer any man either Christian or Heathen did euer sayle so farre as to discouer any land there. Notwithstanding if there by any such people their season is alwayes so extreme cold as no part thereof is worthy to be called a sommer, but rather a continuall winter, and as for their shadow sith the sun when he is at the nighest doth neuer mount aboue their Horizon more then 23. degrées 30′ at the most, their shadow must néedes go round about them nigher, for the most part to their féete then to their heads, for the pole is their Zenith, and the Equinoctiall their Horizon, whereby 6. signes which is the one halfe of the Zodiaque, doth alwaies appeare a∣boue their Horizon, and the other halfe is alwaies hidden vnder their Horizon, and thereby they haue 6. moneths day & 6. moneths night, day I say whilest the sunne is in the 6. Northerne signes, & night, whilest the sunne is in the 6. Southerne signes, and yet the night can not be so darke there as elsewhere, by reason that the sunne is neuer distant from their Horizon aboue 23. degrées 30′· which is only when he entreth into the first degrée of Capricorne. So likewise the day with them can neuer be so cleare as elswhere, by reason that the sunne mounting no higher aboue their Horizon then 23. degr. 30′· which onely is when he entreth into the first de∣grée of Cancer, hath no power to dissolue their grosse, thicke, clou∣die and mistie aire, yet haue they some preheminence in that they may (if their cloudie aire be not the let) alwaies sée all the fixed starres that are placed in the sky betwixt the Equinoctiall and the Pole, because they neuer go down but are alwaies remaining a∣boue their Horizon: whereas in all other parts of the worlde, the said starres can not be séene all at once, for that they both rise and set, more or lesse in number according as the Zenith of the inha∣bitants of euery place is more or lesse distant from the Equi∣noctiall.