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Nothing vnfeenC; nothing ajjurcd 

 "This Circlevnivcrft throughout. 



The Indian,jv/w# at home ht Ate pits, 

 Drinkes of Araxis wattrs cold: 

 The Perfian rich in gems and gold, 

 Wajh in the Rhine and Elbe likewise. 

 Seneca did coniedure this by the great courage of 

 men, as that which fhall happen laft,faying,It fhall fall 

 outin the latter age, &c. as hath bin before mentioned. 



of the opinion which Plato held of the Weft Indies. 

 CHAP. 12. 



IF any one hath treated more particularly of the weft 

 Indies , the honor belongs to Plato, who in his time 

 faith thus. In thofe dajes, they could not fyle this Gulph 

 (meaning the Athntike Sea ( which is the' Ocean ) 

 which meetes at the Straight of Gibraltar ) for that .the 

 pajfcge wasftept at the mouth of the pillars of Hercules, 

 (which is the fame Straight of Gibraltar} and this lland 

 was in thofe dayes ioyned to the forefaid mouth, and was of 

 that higneffey as it exceeded all Afia and Affricke together: 

 and then was there a fajjage te goejrom thefe I lands to o- 

 thers, and from thofe others llandes, they went to the frme 

 Land , the which was neercinvironed with the very Sea. 

 This is reported by Critias in Plato. And fuch as be- 

 leeve that this narration of Plato is a true Hifiorie>deli- 

 vered in thefe termes, fey, that this great dtlanticke I- 

 land ( the which did exceed both : Affridse-md Apa in 

 greatnefle) did then comprehend the greateft part of 

 the Ocean called Atlantike: which the Spaniards no\ve 

 fayle in: and that thofe other Ilands 3 which ( he fayde ( 



were 



