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Opinion of fome.) The trueth hereof is not tb this day 

 well knowne, -neither is there any one found that hath 

 difcovered that land. The Vicei'oy Don teartm Hen 

 rique faide vnto me , that he held this report for ari in 

 vention of the Englltb, that the Straight fliould prefent- 

 lie make an Hand ? and that the two feas did ioyne to 

 gether ; for that (beeing Viceroy of New Spame) hce 

 had diligently examined the Portugal! Pilote, who had 

 bin left there by France Dfake, and yet had no know- 

 ledge of any fuch matter by him. But that was a very 

 Straight, andamaineland on either fide. Returning 

 then to the faide Viceadmirall , they difcovered this 

 Straight (as the faide Hernando Lamer a reported vnto 

 mee) but by another mouth or crime , and in a grea 

 ter height, by reafon of a ccrtaine great Hand which is 

 at the entrie of the Straight, which they call, the Bell, 

 for the forrne it carries . And (as he faide) hee woulde 

 have paired it : but the Gaptaincarid foiildiers woulde 

 not yeelde therevnto, fuppofing that the time was too 

 farrefpent, and that they wereingreatdaunger. And 

 fo they returned to Chilk and Peru 3 without paffing it. 



Of the Straight which fime holae to be m Florida . 

 CHAP. 12. 



EVen as Magellan found out this Straight vppon the 

 South, fo fome have pretended to difcover another 

 Straight, which they fay is in the north, andfuppofe 

 it to be in ^r^whofe coaft runs in fuchfort,as they 

 kno we no end thereof. Peter Melende^ the AdeUnude y 

 a man very expert at fea, affirmeth for certaine, that 

 there is a Straight, and that the King had commanded 



him 



