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cover ies •, direding his courfe to the weflward^ 

 he came to a country the fertihty and beauty of 

 which were amazing. As this country, was with- 

 out inhabitants, Madoc fettled in it ; Hakluit 

 affures us, that he made two or three voyages to 

 England to fetch inhabitants, who, upon the 

 account he gave them of that fine country, went 

 to fettle with him. 



The Englifh believe, that this prince difco- 

 vered Virginia, Peter Martyr feems to give a 

 proof of it, when he fays, that the nations of 

 Virginia^ and thofe of Gualimala, celebrate the 

 memory of one of their ancient heroes, whom 

 they call Madoc. Several modern travellers have 

 found ancient Britifh words ufed by the North 

 American nations. The celebrated Englifh Bi- 

 Iho^ Nicholfon believes, that the Welch language 

 has formed a confiderable part of the languages 

 of the American nations •, there are antiquaries 

 who pretend, that the Spaniards got their double 

 or guttural / (II) from the Americans^ who, ac- 

 cording to the EngliHi, muft have got it from 

 thtWelch, I fhould never have done, if I v/ere 

 to mention all their reafonings to prove the voy- 

 age of the JVelck Prince Madoc. The Dutch 

 brought a bird, with a white head, from the 

 freights of Magellan^ which the natives called 



Penguin ; 



