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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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Very
good
Navigators
they
were;
and
though
they
had
no
knowledg
of
the
Load-stone,
or
Needle
or
pendulous
Watches,
yet
(which
was
as
serviceable
to
them)
they
had
subtile
observations,
and
great
practice;
in
so
much
that
they
could
not
onely
tell
the
depth
of
the
Sea
in
every
place,
but
where
there
were
shelves
of
Sand,
Rocks,
and
other
obstructions
to
be
avoided
by
skilful
and
experienced
Sea-men:
Besides,
they
were
excellent
Augurers,
which
skill
they
counted
more
necessary
and
beneficial
then
the
use
of
Compasses,
Cards,
Watches,
and
the
like;
but,
above
the
rest,
they
had
an
extraordinary
Art,
much
to
be
taken
notice
of
by
Experimental
Philosophers,
and
that
was
a
certain
Engin,
which
would
draw
in
a
great
quantity
of
Air,
and
shoot
forth
Wind
with
a
great
force;
this
Engine
in
a
calm,
they
placed
behind
their
Ships,
and
in
a
storm,
before;
for
it
served
against
the
raging
waves,
like
Cannons
against
an
hostile
Army,
or
besieged
Town;
it
would
batter
and
beat
the
waves
in
pieces,
were
they
as
high
as
Steeples;
and
as
soon
as
a
breach
was
made,
they
forced
their
passage
through,
in
spight
even
of
the
most
furious
wind,
using
two
of
those
Engins
at
every
Ship,
one
before,
to
beat
off
the
waves,
and
another
behind
to
drive
it
on;
so
that
the
artificial
wind
had
the
better
of
the
natural;
for,
it
had
a
greater
advantage
of
the
waves,
then
the
natural
of
the
Ships:
the
natural
being
above
the
face
of
the
Water,
could
not
without
a
down
right
motion
enter
or
press
into
the
Ships;
whereas
the
artificial
with
a
sideward-motion,
did
pierce
into
the
bowels
of
the
Waves:
Moreover,
it
is
to
be
observed,
that
in
a
great
Tempest
they
would
join
their
Ships
in
battel-aray:
and
when
they
feared
Wind
and
Waves
would
be
too
strong
for
them,
if
they
divided
their
Ships;
they
joined
as
many
together
as
the
compass
or
advantage
of
the
places
of
the
Liquid
Element
would
give
them
leave.
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