I could never content my contemplation with those generall pieces of wonders, the flux and reflux of the sea, the encrease of the Nile, the conversion of the Needle to the North, and have studied to match and parallel those in the more obvious and neglected pieces of Nature, which without further travell I can doe in the Cosmography of my selfe; wee carry with us the wonders, we seeke without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventureous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided and endlesse volume.
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