I would observe all those motions of the sea, and from what cause they proceed, from the Moon (as the Vulgar hold) or earths motion, which Galileus in the fourth dialogue of his Systeme of the world, so eagerly proves, and firmly demonstrates; or winds, as some will.

Why in that quiet Ocean of Zur, in mari pacifico, it is scarce perceived, in our British Seas most violent, in the Mediterranean and Red Sea so vehement, irregular and diverse. Why the current in that Atlantick Ocean should still be in some places from, in some again towards the North, and why they come sooner than go?

and so from Malabar to Madagascar in their Indian Ocean, the Merchants come in three weeks, as Scaliger discusseth, they return scarce in three moneths, with the same or like windes: The continuall current is from East to West.

Whether Mount Athos, Pelion, Olympus, Ossa, Caucasus, Atlas, be so high as Pliny, Solinus, Mela relate, above Clouds, Meteors, Ubi nec auræ nec venti spirant, (in so much that they that ascend dy suddenly very often, the aire is so subtile) 1250. paces high, according to that measure of Dicæarchus, or 78. miles perpendicularly high, as Iacobus Mazzonius, sec.3. &4. expounding that place of Aristotle about Mount Caucasus;

and as Blancanus the Iesuite contends out of Clavius & Nonius demonstrations de Crepusculis: or rather 32. stadiums, as the most received opinion is; or 4. miles, which the height of no mountain doth perpendicularly exceed, & is equal to the greatest depths of the Sea, which is, as Scaliger holds 1580. paces. Exer.38. others 100. paces.

I would see those inner parts of America, whether there be any such great City of Manoa, or Eldorado in that golden Empire, where the high ways are as much beaten (one reports) as between Madril & Valadolid in Spain; or any such Amazones as he relates, or giganticall Patagons in Chica; with that miraculous mountain Ybouyapab in the Northern Brasile, cujus jugum sternitur in amænissimam planitiem, &c. or that of Pariacacca so high elevated in Peru.

The pike of Teneriff how high it is? 70. miles, or 50. as Patricius holds, or 9. as Snellius demonstrates in his Eratosthenes: see that strange Cirknickzersey lake in Carniola, whose waters gush so fast out of the ground, that they will overtake a swift horseman, and by and by with as incredible celerity are supped up: which Lazius and Warnerus make an argument of the Argonautes sayling underground.

And that vast den or hole called Esmellen in Muscovia quæ visitur horrendo hiatu, &c. which if any thing casually fall in, makes such a roaring noise, that no thunder, or ordnance, or warlike engin can make the like; such another is Gilbers Cave in Lapland, with many the like.

I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates it self, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxares, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Oby, or where?

What vent the Mexican lake hath, the Titicacan in Peru, or that circular pool in the vale of Terapeia, of which Acosta l.3. c.16. hot in a cold country, the Spring of which boils up in the middle twenty foot square, and hath no vent but exhalation: and that of Mare mortuum in Palestina, of Thrasumene, at Peruzium in Italy;

the Mediterranean it self. For from the Ocean, at the Straights of Gibralter, there is a perpetuall current into the Levant, and so likewise by the Thracian Bosphorus out of the Euxine or black Sea, besides all those great rivers of Nilus, Padus, Rhodanus, &c. how is this water consumed, by the Sun, or otherwise?

I would find out with Trajan the fountains of Danubius, of Ganges, Oxus, see those Ægyptian Pyramids, Trajans bridge, Grotta de Sybilla, Lucullus Fish-ponds, the Temple of Nidrose, &c.

And, if I could, observe what becomes of Swallowes, Storks, Cranes, Cuckowes, Nightingales, Redstars, and many other kinde of singing birds, water-fowls, Hawks, &c. some of them are onely seen in Summer, some in Winter; some are observed in the snow, and at no other times, each have their seasons. In winter not a bird is in Muscovie to be found, but at the spring in an instant the woods and hedges are full of them, saith Herbastein: how comes it to pass?

Do they sleep in winter, like Gesners Alpine mice; or do they lye hid (as Olaus affirmes) in the bottome of lakes and rivers, spiritum continentes? often so found by Fishermen in Poland and Scandia, two together, mouth to mouth, wing to wing; and when the spring comes they revive again, or if they be brought into a stove, or to the fire side.

Or do they follow the Sun, as Peter Martyr legat. Babylonica l.2. manifestly evicts, out of his own knowledge: for when he was Embassadour in Ægypt, he saw Swallowes, Spanish Kites, and many such other European birds, in December and Ianuary very familiarly flying, and in great abundance, about Alexandria, ubi floridæ tunc arbores ac viridaria.

Or lye they hid in caves, rocks, and hollow trees, as most think, in deep Tin-mines or Sea-cliffes, as Mr Carew gives out? I conclude of them all, for my part, as Munster doth of Cranes and storks: whence they come, whither they goe, incompertum adhuc, as yet we know not. We see them here, some in summer, some in winter: Their comming and going is sure in the night: in the plaines of Asia (saith he) the storkes meet on such a set day, he that comes last is torn in peeces, and so they get them gon.