For the partie of the firmament schewethe in o contree, that schewethe not in another contree.

And men may well preven be experience and sotyle compassement of wytt, that zif a man fond passages be schippes, that wolde go to serchen the world, men mighte go be schippe all aboute the world, and aboven and benethen.

The whiche thing I prove thus, aftre that I have seyn.

* * * Be the whiche I seye zou certeynly, that men may envirowne alle the erthe of alle the world, as wel undre as aboven, and turnen azen to his contree, that hadde companye and schippynge and conduyt: and alle weyes he scholde fynde men, londes, and yles, als wel as in this contree."-- SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE; _Johnson's Hist.

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