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THE PREFACE. 



T will not he to my purpose to enquire whether 

 America was known to the Antients, there 

 being various Opinions about it, yet ivith 

 more Curiosity than certainty, whence this 

 Xew World ivas Peopled; some assigning 

 that the Hesperides (so called from Hesperus King of 

 Spain) and the Continent of America ivere Peopled by the 

 Spaniards. Others affirm that the Americans are the Race of 

 Jews carried into captivity by Salamanazer and placed in 

 Country s till then not Inhabited, after a progress of 18 

 Months. Many believe they were People carried by Storm, 

 being Chinesses sailing on the Pacifick South Sea, or other 

 Northern People (allowing the possibility of each Opinion) 



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