and runne contrarie courses; in one line, but no such conflicts of
streames, or contrary courses are found about any part of Labrador, or
Terra noua, as witnesse our yeerely fishers, and other saylers that way,
but is there disgested, as aforesayd, and found by experience of Barnard de
la Torre, to fall into Mar del Sur.

10 Furthermore, the current in the great Ocean, could not haue beene
maintained to runne continually one way, from the beginning of the world
vnto this day, had there not beene some thorow passage by the fret
aforesayd, and so by circular motion bee brought againe to maintaine it
selfe: For the Tides and courses of the sea are maintayned by their
interchangeable motions: as fresh riuers are by springs, by ebbing and
flowing, by rarefaction and condensation.

So that it resteth not possible (so farre as my simple reason can
comprehend) that this perpetuall current can by any meanes be maintained,
but onely by continuall reaccesse of the same water, which passeth thorow
the fret, and is brought about thither againe, by such circular motion as
aforesayd. [Marginal note: The flowing is occasioned by reason that the
heate of the moone boyleth, and maketh the water thinne by way of
rarefaction.] And the certaine falling thereof by this fret into Mar del
Sur [Marginal note: An experience to prooue the falling of this current
into Mar del Sur.] is prooued by the testimonie and experience of Bernard
de la Torre, who was sent from P. de la Natiuidad to the Moluccæ, Anno
domini 1542. by commandement of Anthony Mendoza, then Viceroy of Noua
Hispania, which Bernard sayled 750. Leagues, on the Northside of the
Aequator, and there met with a current, which came from the Northeast, the
which droue him backe againe to Tidore.

Wherfore, this current being proued to come from C. de buona Sperança to