

The ^_atural\ anil Moral! 



one and the other. But many through curiofitie may 

 demaund, if the Ancients had no knowledge of this 

 trueth, which to vs is now fo apparent.: feeing that in 

 trueth it feemeth very ftrange , that this newe worldc 

 which is fp fpacious as we doe vifibly fee it , fhould be 

 hidden from the Ancients by fo many ages. But fome 

 at this 'day , feeking to obfcure thefelicitie of this age, 

 and the glory of our Nation, ftrive to proove,that the 

 new-found world was knowne to the Ancients. And 

 in trueth. wee cannot deny , but there was Ibme appa- 

 rency. S.krome writing vpon the Epiftle to the Ephefi- 

 .i.td ifitf. ans, fayth. We feekc with reafon what the. Apoltle meaweth 

 in tbefe wordcs, where he filth. -you have walked for a feafon 

 according to the courfi ofthi* world jvhether he would have 

 <us to 1'ndersiand, that then 'is an other world .which neither 

 #, nor defends of this world : but other worldes, whereof 

 Clement writes in his Epistle , the Ocean and the worldes 

 which are beyond the Ocean : Thefe are the wordes of 

 &.Ierome, but -irupueth I cannot hnde this Epiftle of 

 S. Clement cited by S.Ierome: yet I beleeve vndoubted- 

 Iy 5 that S. Clement hath written it , feeing S-Jerwmt ma 

 ke th mention thereof. And with reafon faint Clement 

 faith, that beyond the Ocean there is an other vvorlde, 

 yea, many woiides , as in trueth there is ; feeing there 

 is fo great diftance from one ncwe worlde to an other 

 new world: ( I meane from Peru and the Weft Indies, 

 to china and the Eaft Indies.) Moreover, P//^/>,who 

 hathbeenefo curious a fcarcher out of ftrange things, 

 reportes in hisnaturallHiftorie, thatffc/wwzaCap- 

 taine of the Carthaginians, fayled through the Ocean, 

 in met ^' om r ^ e Straight of 'Gibraltar *, coafting alongft the 

 ' land, even vnto the confines of \^drabia , and that hee 

 left this his Navigation in writing. If itbeeasP&w 



writes, 



