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apud nos ferrum. He sunt mayne ille insule de quibus ex Aris« 
totelis et Theophrasti mente Apulejus Libro de mundo. In Senecee 
Sausoriis, avitus testatur communem opinionem jactari: Fertiles 
im oceano jacere terras, ultraque eum rursus alia litora alium 
jacere orbem. Quo Senecee Tragedi predictiones in Medea _per- 
tnent.””—Hornius de Orig. Americanorum, p. 57. 
“ Secundus adventus Phcenicum in Americam continetur illis 
priscorum scriptorum narrationibus, quibus navigantes in Atlantico 
mari novas detexisse terras, referunt. Quod Diodorus ventis et 
tempestatibus adscribit ; cujus verba rem mirificé illustrant. Dicit 
enim: Phenices vetustissimis temporibus extra columnas Herculis 
enavigantes ingentibus ventorum procellis ad longinquos ocean 
tractus fuisse abreptos, ac multis diebus vi tempestatis jactatos 
tandem ad ingentem insulam in oceano Atlantico, complurium die- 
rum ‘navigatione a Lyhia in occasum remotam, venisse; cujus 
solum frugiferum amnes navigabiles fuerunt. Quibus verbis nihil 
_clarius esse potest. Nam et notam fuisse Priscis Americam, et 
Pheenices in eam navigasse ostendunt.”—Idem, p. 91. 
Appended to Schmidt’s Edition of Pindar, 4to. 1516, is a disser- 
tation on the question, “an America priscis hominibus fuerit cog- 
nita,”’—which he determines in the affirmative. He supports his opi- 
nion by many passages from the ancient poets and historians, some 
of which I have already quoted, and others, together with his re- 
ferences to Holy Scripture, I have omitted ; because I do not think 
they can fairly be applied to the subject before us. The testimonies 
he adduced were, in his view, sufficiently decisive to warrant the fol- 
lowing conclusion. 
“ Tta ergo, non una sed pluribus, non obscuris sed evidentibus, 
non profanis tantum, sed et paucis testimoniis, probatum hactenus, 
