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 -  Simillima his habet Giraldus
Cambrensis (qui floruit, An. 1210.) in libro de mirabilibus Hybernia, sic
enim scribit. Non procul ab - Page 132
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Simillima His Habet Giraldus Cambrensis (Qui Floruit, An.

1210.) in libro de mirabilibus Hybernia, sic enim scribit.

Non procul ab insulis Hebridibus, Islandia, &c. ex parte Boreali, est maris quadam miranda vorago, in quam a remotis partibus omnes vndique fluctus marini tanquam ex condicto fluunt, & recurrunt, qui in secreta natura penetralia se ibi transfundentes, quasi in Abyssum vorantur. Si vero nauem hac forte transire contigerit, tanta rapitur, & attrahitur fluctuum violentia, vt eam statim irreuocabiliter vis voracitatis absorbeat.

Quatuor voragines huius Oceani, a quatuor oppositis mundi partibus Philosophi describunt, vnde & tam marinos fluctus, quam & Aolicos flatus causaliter peruenire nonnulli coniectant.

The same in English.

Touching the description of the North partes, I haue taken the same out of the voyage of Iames Cnoyen of Hartzeuan Buske, which alleageth certaine conquests of Arthur king of Britaine: and the most part, and chiefest things among the rest, he learned of a certaine priest in the king of Norwayes court, in the yeere 1364. This priest was descended from them which king Arthur had sent to inhabite these Islands, and he reported that in the yeere 1360, a certaine English Frier, a Franciscan, and a Mathematician of Oxford, came into those Islands, who leauing them, and passing further by his Magicall Arte, described all those places that he sawe, and tooke the height of them with his Astrolabe, according to the forme that I (Gerard Mercator) haue set downe in my mappe, and as I haue taken it out of the aforesaid Iames Cnoyen.

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