s faciunt? &c._

"What (saith he) are they that thinke there are Antipodes, such as
walke with their feet against ours? doe they speake any likelyhood?
or is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are men whose
heeles are higher than their heads? that things which with us doe lie
on the ground doe hang there? that the Plants and Trees grow
downewards, that the haile, and raine, and snow fall upwards to the
earth? and doe wee admire the hanging Orchards amongst the seven
wonders, whereas here the Philosophers have made the Field and Seas,
the Cities and Mountaines hanging."

What shall wee thinke (saith hee in _Plutarch_) that men doe clyng to
that place like wormes, or hang by their clawes as Cats, or if wee
suppose a man a little beyond the Center, to bee digging with a spade?
is it likely (as it must bee according to this opinion) that the earth
which hee loosened, should of it selfe ascend upwards? or else suppose
two men with their middles about the center, the feete of the one being
placed where the head of the other is, and so two other men crosse them,
yet all these men thus situated according to this opinion should stand
upright, and many other such grosse consequences would follow (saith
hee) which a false imagination is not able to fancy as possible. Upon
which considerations, _Bede_[3] also denies the being of any Antipodes,

_Neque enim Antipodarum ullatenus est Fabulis accommodandus assensus_,

"Nor should wee any longer assent to the Fable of Antipodes." So also
_Lucretius_ the Poet speaking of the same subject, sayes:

_Sed vanus stolidis haec omnia finxerit error._[4]

[Sidenote 1: _De civit. Dei. lib. 16. cap. 9._]

[Sidenote 2: _Institut. l. 3. c. 24._]

[Sidenote 3: _De ratione temporum, Cap. 32._]

[Sidenote 4: _De nat. rerum, lib. 1._]

That some idle fancy faigned these for fooles to believe. Of this
opinion was _Procopius Gazaeus_,[1] but he was perswaded to it by another
kinde of reason; for he thought that all the earth under us was sunke in
the water, according to the saying of the Psalmist,[2] Hee hath founded
the Earth upon the Seas, and therefore hee accounted it not inhabited by
any. Nay _Tostatus_ a man of later yeeres and generall learning doth
also confidently deny that there are any such Antipodes, though the
reason which hee urges for it bee not so absurde as the former, for the
Apostles, saith hee,[3] travelled through the whole habit