NEW ATLANTIS. 377 



(which is the same with Cambaline 1 ) and Quinzy, 2 

 upon the Oriental Seas, as far as to the borders of the 

 East Tartary. 



&quot; At the same time, and an age after, or more, the 

 inhabitants of the great Atlantis did flourish. 3 For 

 though the narration and description which is made by 

 a great man with you, that the descendants of Neptune 

 planted there ; and of the magnificent temple, palace, 

 city, and hill ; and the manifold streams of goodly 

 navigable rivers, (which, as so many chains, environed 

 the same site and temple) ; and the several degrees of 

 ascent whereby men did climb up to the same, as if it 

 had been a scala coeli ; be all poetical and fabulous : 

 yet so much is true, that the said country of Atlantis, 

 as well that of Peru, then called Coya, as that of 

 Mexico, then named Tyrambel, were mighty and proud 

 kingdoms in arms, shipping, and riches : so mighty, as 

 at one time (or at least within the space of ten years) 

 they both made two great expeditions ; they of Ty 

 rambel through the Atlantic to the Mediterrane Sea ; 



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and they of Coya through the South Sea upon this our 

 island. And for the former of these, which was into 

 Europe, the same author amongst you (as it seemeth) 

 had some relation from the Egyptian priest whom he 



1 Cambalu is the reading of the common text of Marco Polo. The 

 word is properly Khambalik. It is the Tartar name for Peking. R. L. E. 

 [It is Cambalu in the translation; and in the English Bacon probably 

 wrote Cambalue. J. S. \ 



2 The Quinsai of Marco Polo, now Hangchowfoo. R. L. E. 



3 See Plato, Critias, p. 113., and Timseus, p. 25. Everything relating to 

 the story of Atlantis has been collected by Humboldt, Examen critique de 

 VHistoire de la Geographic, &c., i. p. 167. Compare Martin, Etudes sur le 

 Tiinee ; and see Gesenius, Mcmumenta Phoenicia, for an account of a spu 

 rious Phoenician inscription, purporting to give the history of the destruc 

 tion of Atlantis. It may be a question whether there be not some affinity \ , 

 between Atlantis and Homer s Phaeacia. R. L. E. 



