XXX ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Cities of the South may be the Indies - 43 



Prophecy of Isaiah 44 



Many nations to whom Christ has not yet been preached 44 



CHAPTER 16. By what meanes the first men might come to the Indies, 

 the ivhich was not willingly nor of set purpose. 



The New World not peopled by a miracle 45 



Opinion of the Author 46 



Passage in ships considered - 46 



New World not reached in ships 47 



The ancients were ignorant of the compass 48 



CHAPTER 17. Of the properties and admirable virtue of the 



Adamante stone for navigation, wliere&amp;lt;*f the Ancients had no 



knoivledge. 



Use of the compass in navigation 50 



Virtues of the load stone - 50 



Time of its discovery uncertain 51 



Variation of the compass 52 



Four points of no variation - 52 



CHAPTER 18. Wherein an answere is made to them that say that in 



times passed they have sailed through the Ocean as at 



this day. 



Long voyages not proved by Scripture 53 



In ancient books no proof of long voyages 54 



The ancients only coasted along the shore 54 



CHAPTER 19. That ive may conjecture how the first inhabitants of 

 the Indies came thither by force of iveatker and not willingly. 



Story of the discovery of America by a nameless pilot 54 



Most new countries discovered by chance 55 



Wonderful voyage recorded by Cornelius Nepos - 55 



Ship of Carthage driven to the New World 55 



Giants said to have landed in Peru 56 



People of Yea and Arica sailed in South Sea 56 



Most discoveries due to chance 57 



