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lands there is no greater diftance of fca, accompting 

 from the neereft parts of both the lands : for from th? 

 end of Europe qr Africkt and their coaftes, to the Can* 

 ries , the Ifles of (hearts, Cafe FerdznA others in the 

 like degree , are not above three huiidred leagues, or 

 five hundred from the May ne land. From the {aide L 

 lands running along to the Weft Indies , therearefcant 

 nine hundred leagues, to the Hands of faint Bmmick* 

 the Virgins , the Happy llandes and the reft and the 

 fame Hands runne along in ordgjjxuhe llandes of Bar- 

 lovcnt which are Cuba , H^awola&Vi&Bwiquen^ front 

 thefamellands vnto theMaynelandarcfcarcetwoor 

 three hundred leagues 5 & in the neereft part farre lefle. 

 T^ c J^ rjtlc J an< ^ ^SQ 65 an infinitgfoace^from Tcrr&Fl&~ 

 rida to the land of P.Atagp#s. 9 ana on the other fide of 

 the South, from the Straight of Maggttfwxo the Cape 

 of tMendoce, there runnes a long^Continentbutnot 

 very large : for the largeft is the Travers of Pm*, which 

 ., is diftan t from Braftl about a thoufand leagues. In this 



South Sea, although the^ha^ejiQt yet difcovcredthe 

 ende towards the Weft,yetoflate they have found out 

 the Hands, which they call &*/<w/0#, the which are ma- 

 ny and great, diftant from Peru about eyght hundred 

 leagues. And for that wee finde by observation, that 

 whereas there bee many and great llandes, fo there is 

 fome firme Land not farrc off, I my fclfe with many o- 

 there doebeleeve , that there is ibme firme hnd neere 

 vnto the Hands of */0w0#,the which doth anfwcre vn 

 to our America on ^^the Weft part, and poffibly might 

 runne by the heigth of the South, totheStraightes 

 &xJWaggiita. Smehold,that^^^ Guinea is firme 

 Land, aodigffle learned men defcribe it neere to the I- 

 lands of Saltmo* 5 fo as it is likely , a good parte of the 



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