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Of Zones.

Now the use of these four Circles, of Cancer, Capri∣corn, the Arctick and Antarctick) are to shew the five parts, called Zones: whereof there are two temperate, the one North, the other South: two frozen or cold; one of them also North, and the other South, and one hot, or scorched. The North temperate Zone, is that part or space, conteined between the Tropick of Cancer, and the North-Polar Circle. The South temperate Zone, is that space contained between the Tropick of Capricorn, and the South-polar Circle. They are called temperate, because the Air thereof is more moderate, and of a better temper, being neither so very hot, as the scorched Zone, nor so extream cold as the frozen Zones.

The torrid, burnt, or hot Zone is that space contein∣ed between the two Tropicks of Cancer, and Capricorn, and is continually scorched with the Sun, which doth alwayes pass over it, afflicting it with a marvellous heat and down-right Rays: the breadth hereof compre∣hendeth 47 degrees, or 2820 miles, every degree be∣ing 60 miles, as hath been said already. The North Frigid, frozen, or cold Zone, is that space conteined

within the Arctick, or North-Polar Circle: the breadth whereof from the very Pole it self, is 23 degrees and a half, which is 1410 miles. The South frigid, frozen, or cold Zone, is that space or part between the An∣tarctick, or South Polar Circle, and hath the same breadth as the North Frozen Zone hath from the North-Pole: namely 23 degrees and a half, or 1410 miles.