"The voyage which we intend is to plant Christian people and religion upon the Northwest countries of America, in places temperate and well agreeing with our constitution, which though the same do lie between 40 and 44 degrees of latitude, under the parallels of Italy and France, yet are not they so hot; by reason that the sun's heat is qualified in his course over the ocean, before he arriveth upon the coasts of America, attracting much vapor from the sea, which mitigation of his heat, we take for a benefit to us that intend to inhabit there; because under the climate of 40 degrees, the same would be too vehement else for our bodies to endure.” John Brereton, A Brief and True Relation (London, 1602) in 3 Collections , VIII, with the treatise by Edward Hayes, especially ibid., 95.