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the Mariners which fee them, cannot faile that way. 

 Then he addes, For this caufe vnto this day y that Sea it not 

 navigable , ly reafon of the bancke which by little & little is 



growne in that drowned lland. I would willingly demand 

 what Sea could fwallowvp fb infinite a continent of 

 land , greater then Afa zn&Affrike, vvhofe confines 

 ftretched vnto the Indies , and to fwallow it vp in fuch 

 fort , as there fhould at this day remaine no fignes nor 

 markes thereof, whatfocver : feeing it is well knowne 

 by experience , that the Mariners finde no bottome in 

 the Sea, where they (ay this Hand was . Notwithftan- 

 ding, it may feeme indifcreete and farre from reafon, 

 todifpute ferioufly of thofe things which are repor 

 ted at pleafurc, or if we (hall give that rcfpedl to the au- 

 thoritie of Plato fas it is reafon,)wcmuft rather vnder- 

 ftand them to fignifiefimply, fas inapidture) theprof^ 

 peritie ofa Gitie, andwithall,theruine thereof. For 

 the argument they make , to prove that this AtUntikc 

 Hand, hath bene really and indeede, faying that the fea 

 in thofe parts , doth at this day beare the name of At- 

 lantike, is of fmall importance, for that wee knowe 



^. Mount Atlo* 5 whereof Ptimt fayes this fea tooke 



}i t he name, is vpon the confines of the Mediterranean 

 Sea. And the fame Plinie reportes, that ioy ning to the 

 faid Mount, there is an Hand called Atlantike , which 

 hereportestobe litde, and of fmall accompt. 



"That the ofinion of many which holdc , that the frtt 

 race of the Indians comes from the levves , is nti 

 true. CHAP. 23. 



NO w that wee have (hewed how vnlikely it is, that 

 the fii'ft Indians paffed to the Indies by the Atlan 

 tike 



