Et quia prope sub ipso septentrionali vertice mundi iacet, lucidas aestate noctes habet; ita ut medio saepe tempore noctis in quaestionem veniat intuentibus, utrum crepusculum adhuc permaneat vespertinum, an iam advenerit matutinum, utpote nocturno sole non longe sub terris ad orientem boreales per plagas redeunte: unde etiam plurimae longitudinis habet dies aestate, sicut et noctes contra in bruma, sole nimirum tunc Lybicas in partes secedente, id est, horarum decem et octo: plurimae item brevitatis noctes aestate et dies habet in bruma, hoc est, sex solummodo aequinoctialium horarum: cum in Armenia, Macedonia, Italia, ceterisque eiusdem lineae regionibus longissima dies sive nox quindecim, brevissima novem compleat horas.
And forasmuch as it is placed right in manner under the North Pole of the heavens, it hath light nights in the summer, so that at midnight many times men looking doubteth whether it be yet of the evening past or break of the day following, since the sun at night dwelleth not long beneath the earth but returneth shortly to the east through the northern regions: whereby too the days be of a great length there in summer, as contrary the nights in winter, that is to wit 18 hours, by reason for sure the sun then goeth away to the regions of Libya: and so in like manner the nights in summer are there very short, and the days in the winter, that is to wit six equinoctial hours only: whereas in Armenia, Macedonia, Italy and the other countries subject to the same line, the longest day or night passeth not 15, the shortest 9 hours in all.
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