Southside of Afrike where the current that runneth from the East to the
West is so strong (by reason of such motion) that the Portugals in their
voyages Eastward to Calicut, in passing by Cap. de buona Sperança are
enforced to make diuers courses, the current there being so swift as it
striketh from thence all along Westward vpon the fret of Magellan, being
distant from thence, neere the fourth part of the longitude of the earth;
and not hauing free passage and entrance thorow, the fret towards the West,
by reason of the narrownesse of the sayd Straite of Magelian [sic--KTH], it
runneth to salue this wrong, (Nature not yeelding to accidentall
restraints) all along the Easterne coastes of America, Northwards so far as
Cape Fredo, being the farthest knowne place of the same continent towards
the North: which is about 4800 leagues, reckoning therewithall the trending
of the land.

[Sidenote: Posita causa ponitur effectus.] 8 So that this current being
continually maintained with such force, as Iaques Cartier[37] affirmeth it
to be, who met with the same being at Baccalaos, as he sayled along the
coastes of America, then either it must be of necessitie haue way to passe
from Cape Fredo, thorow this fret, Westward towards Cataia, being knowen to
come so farre, onely to salue his former wrongs, by the authority before
named: or els it must needes strike ouer, vpon the coast of Island, Norway,
Finmarke, and Lappia, (which are East from the sayd place about 360
leagues) with greater force then it did from Cape de buona Sperança, vpon
the fret of Magellan, or from the fret of Magellan to Cape Fredo, vpon
which coastes Iaques Cartier met with the same, considering the shortnesse
of the Cut from the sayd Cape Fredo, to Island, Lappia, &c. And so the
cause Efficient remaining, it would haue continually followed along our
coasts, through the narrow seas, which it doth not, but is digested about
the North of Labrador, by some through passage there thorow this fret.