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it by experience, ranne above nine hundred leagues. 

 But to intreate of China , Cochinckin* , Syam, and o- 

 ther regions which are of the Eaft Indies^ were con 

 trary to my purpofe,which is onely to difcourfe of the 

 Weft : nay,they are ignorant of the greateft part of A. 

 memo,, which lies betwixt PtrnznABrefili, although 

 the bounds beknovvne of all fides, wherein there is di~ 

 verfitie of opinions ; feme lay it is a drowned land , full 

 of Lakes arid waterie places- Others affirme there arc 

 great and florifhingkingdomes,imagining there be the 

 Paytiti, the D trade ,and the Citjars, where they fay are 

 wondei full things. I have heard one of our company' 

 fay, a man worthy of credite, that hee had feene great 

 dwellings there, and the waiesasrauchbeaten 5 as thofe 

 betwixt Salawaxca,znd Filladtllit&e. which he did fee, 

 vvhcnas Peter tfOrfia, and after, thofe that fucceeded 

 him, made their en trie and difcoverie by the great ri 

 f^tttdfynsy who bcleeving that the Dorado which 



they fought, was farther off, cared not to inhabitc 

 there, and after went both without the Dorado, which 

 they could not findc, and this great Province which 

 they left. To fpsake the tru th,the habitations of^Mc- 

 rica,ttt to this day vnknowne, except the extrcamitics, 

 which are Peru, Bre/iH, and that pait where the land be- 

 ginnes to ftraighten , which is the river of Silver , then 

 7#r#/%*#,which makes the round toC&/$?and Char CM. 

 Of late we have vnderftood by letters from fbme of 

 ours which go to S. Croixjn the5V<7r<?,that they go diC 

 covering ofgreat Provinces and dwellings , betwixt 

 Brejttt and Peru. Time will revcile them, for as at this 

 day the care and courage of men is great, to compafTe 

 the world from one part to another ; foweemaybe- 

 Iccve, that as they have difcovered that which is now 



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