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CHAPTER 10. That Plinie and the auncients held the same opinion 



ivith Aristotle. 



Pliny thought the tropics uninhabitable 29 



Arguments of the ancients 30 



CHAPTER 11. That in ancient Bookes ive finde some knowledge of 



this newe world. 



Voyage of Han no - -32 



Voyage of Eudoxus - 33 



Ancient knowledge of the East Indies - - 33 



Sumatra and Malacca - 33 



- Prophecy of Seneca 34 



CHAPTER 12. Of the opinions which Plato held of the West Indies. 



Timeeus and Critias - 36 



Interpretation of sayings of Plato 36 



CHAPTER 13. That some have held opinion that in places of Holy 



Scripture, ivhereas they speake of Ophir, is to be understood 



of our Peru. 



Hispaniola said to be Ophir - 37 



Whether Peru be Ophir 37 



Fancied resemblance of names 38 



Ophir was in the East Indies 39 



CHAPTER 14. What Tharsis and Ophir signify in the Holy 

 Script ures. 



Identification of Tarshish 40 



Tarshish has divers meanings 41 



A general term 42 



CHAPTER 15. Of the Prophecie of A bdias, which some doe interpret 

 to be the Indies. 



The discovery of America said to have been foretold in 



Scripture 42 



Prophecy of Obadiah 43 



Sepharad (Zarephath) supposed to be Spain 43 



