historicalgeogra00psal

the Ife Formofa
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tner •, they are f^pa;2 Winds, very fharp and
cold.
We have very little Rain till Winter, but then
it rains two or three Months togecher ; and tho'
we never lee Ice nor Snow, yet thefe cold Rains
and (harp Winds make a feveie Winter. All the
Summer the heat obligeth us to live under Ground^
as I
(hall more fully (hew you hereafter.
I never learn'd the Maibematicks, therefore I
will not pretend to tell you in what Latitude For-
Tnofa lies, even the European Geographers cannot
agree where to place it. moft of them indeed
fay it is under the Tropic of Cancer^ and probably
they may be in the right, for at Midfammer
the Sun is exaftly over our Heads ^
yet fureiy
they mutt be wrong when they place Formofa in
Latitude 23. Japan 50. and Jctzo 40 and 45;*
for our Ifland as to the Climate is not unlike 7/.?/^ *,
fome parts o^ Japan are as cold as England^ zml
Jetzois fo extreamly cold that it is not inhabited.
Now I cannot coilceive how J^/^^fhouldbe
fo intenfely cold, and yet in the lame Meridia.a
with Countries well peopled, even to 70 and 80
degrees of Latitude. But let this Matter be as it
will, I cannot pretend to determine it, but (hall
pafs on to the next Chapter.
Of
IF
CHAP. IL
the great Ke^z/oluiio^s which ha've
happen d in
the IjLand Formofa,
we look into our Chxonicles, that vvere written
about 250 Years fmce, we find that the
Government oi Formofa was Monarchical, the
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King