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of Cancer, as S. Augustine and Lactantius doe affirm e, or 

 , if there were any, at the least they did not inhabite betwixt 

 tusphii., the two Tropicks. as Aristotle and Plinie have maintained, 



cap. 11. 



and before them the Philosopher Parmenides, the coutrarie 

 whereof is before sufficiently prooved, both for the one and 

 the other. But many through curiositie may demaund, if 

 the Ancients had no knowledge of this trueth, which to vs 

 is now so apparent; seeing that in trueth it seemeth very 

 strange that this newe worlde which is so spacious as we 

 doe visibly see it, should be hidden from the Ancients by 

 so many ages. But some at this day, seeking to obscure 

 the felicitie of this age and the Glory of our Nation, strive 

 to proove that the new-found world was knowne to the 

 ?uperp Ancients. And in trueth wee cannot deny but there was 

 i.adEphes. gome apparency. 1 S. lerome writing vpon the Epistle to 

 the Ephesians, sayth : &quot; We seeke with reason what the 

 Apostle meaneth in these wordes, where he saith : you. 

 have walked for a season according to the course of this 

 world, whether he would have vs to vnderstand that there 

 is an other world, which neither is nor depends of this 

 world ; but other worldes, whereof Clement writes in his 

 Epistle, the Ocean and the worldes which are beyond the 

 Ocean&quot;. These are the wordes of S. lerome, but in trueth 

 I cannot finde this Epistle of S. Clement cited by S. lerome, 

 yet I beleeve vndoubtedly, that S. Clement hath written it, 

 seeing S. lerome maketh mention thereof. And with 

 reason saint Clement saith, that beyond the Ocean there is 

 an other worlde, yea, many worldes, as in trueth there is ; 

 seeing there is so great distance from one newe worlde to 

 an other new world (T meane from Peru and the West 

 Indies, to China and the East Indies). Moreover, Plinie, 

 who hath beene so curious a searcher out of strange things, 

 reportes in his naturall Historic, that Hannon, a Captaine 

 of the Carthaginians, sayled through the Ocean, from the 

 1 u y realmente no se puecle negar, que ay a desto algunos rastros.&quot; 



