Sic explicandus eſst Mela libr. 3. cap. 10. in fin.
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* dum inſsulas Gorgonum terræ promontorio, cui Heſsperion ceras nomen eſst, finiri tradit: & conſs tat quoniam Heſsperion ceras hoc eſst Heſsperi cornu (quo præteruecto Hanno in Orientale Africæ latus deflexit) Ptolomeus lib. 4. de interiori lybiæ ſsitu, capit. 6. decem & tribus gradibus in Arctum iacet, at promontorium bonæ ſspei tanta in auſstrum longitudine procurrit, vt Equinoctium ſsuperet, & Auſstrum verſsus circiter gradus triginta, & quinque ab Equinoctiali plaga diſssideat ex Oſsor. de reb. geſstis Emman. lib. 4. pag. 169. Guicciardin. lib. 6. Hiſstoriæ Italiæ , & poſst Heſsperionis promontorium (Cabouerde ex Molin. tract. 2. diſsp. 34. Guicciard. d. lib. 6. Mariana lib. 1. cap. 22.) Canarias collocant Solinus cap. 58. & Plin. lib. 6. cap. 31. & 32. conſstat igitur Heſsperion, & promon| torium bonæ ſspei multis gradibus, & diuerſsis ſsub orbibus inter ſse diſstare contra Incognitum.
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