04 THE ISLAND OF ATLANTIS. , 



5i r - nor difficult^ being an indubitable tiling, that the one world 

 is continued and ioyned with the other, or at the least they 

 approach one neerer vnto another in some parts. 



CHAP. xxn. That the lineage of the Indians hath not passed 

 by the Atlantis Hand as some do imagine. 



sap., cap. Some (following Platoe s opinion, mentioned before) 

 affirm e that these men parted from Europe or Affricko to 

 go to that famous and renowned Hand of Atlantis, and so 

 passed from one Hand vnto another, vntill they came to the 

 maine land of the Indies, for that Cricias of Plato in his 

 Tirneus discourseth in this maner. If the Atlantis Hand were 

 as great as all Asia and Affrike together, or greater, as 

 Plato saies, it should of necessitie containe all the Atlantike 

 Ocean, and stretch even vnto the Hands of the new world. 

 And Plato saieth moreover that by a great and strange 

 deluge the Atlantis Hand was drowned, and by that meanes 

 the sea was made vnnavigable, through the ahoundance 

 of banckes, rockes, and roughnesse of the waves, which 

 were yet in his time. But in the end the ruines of this 

 drowned Hand were setled, which made this sea navigable. 

 This hath been curiously handled and discoursed of by 

 some learned men of good judgement, and yet, to speak 

 the truth, being well considered, they are ridiculous things, 

 resembling rather to Ovid s tales then a Historic or Philo 

 sophic worthy of accompt. The greatest part of Platoe s 

 Interpreters affirme that it is a true Historie, whatsoever 

 Cricias reports of the strange beginning of the Atlantis 

 Hand, of the greatnes thereof, of the warres. they had 

 against them of Europe, with many other things. That 

 which gives it the more credite of a true Historie be the 

 wordes of Cricias (whom Plato brings in in his Timeus), say 

 ing that the subject ho moans to treat of is of stranire things, 



