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LIB. in. Moreover, there is a place in the midst of the great 

 Ocean, without the view of land, and many leagues from it, 

 where are seene as it were two towers or pikes of a very 

 high elevated rocke, rising out of the middest of the sea, 

 and yet ioyning vnto it they finde no bottome. No man 

 can yet perfectly comprehend, nor conceive the full and 

 perfect forme of the land at the Indies, the boundes being 

 not wholly discovered to this day : yet wee may guesse 

 that it is proportioned like a heart with the lungs. The 

 broadest of this heart is from Bresill to Peru, the poynt at 

 the straight of Magellan, and the top where it ends is the 

 firme land, and there the continent begins by little and 

 litle to extend it selfe vritill wee come to the height of 

 Florida and the vpper laudes, which are not yet well dis 

 covered. We may vnderstand other particularities of this 

 land at the Indies, by the Commentaries which the Spaniards 

 have written of their successe and discoveries; and amongest 

 the rest, of the Peregrination which I have written ; which 

 in trueth is strange, and may give a great light. This, in 

 my opinion, may suffice at this time to give som knowledge 

 of things at the Indies, touching the common elements, of 

 the which all parts of the worlde are famed. 



