Compendium of Cosmographical Disciplines

C A P. II.

It will be handed down very briefly by exception that, besides the [portion] subject to or near the Southern pole, and besides the ridges of Chamesia and Southern Atlantis facing one another, which protrude beyond the equator—the former indeed to the 54th degree, where the strait of Martin Behaim is, otherwise called by the Lusitanian Magellan, the latter however to the 35th, where the Cape of Good Hope is—the entire face of the terrestrial globe, with almost continuous movement, except for two breaks of the sea, is elevated from East to West, and against the NORTHERN part of the world. By what reason this is so, is handed down in the work of the Dispunctiones,