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U A M E %^I C A. Chap. II. 



the firft Divifion of his Fifth Book, makes his beginning with the Defcripti- 

 on of Africa : And as to what further concerns the ftrange Relation and dan- 

 ger thereof, is a little before related in Hanno's Voyage ; and it is but a flight 

 Argument to prove it America, becaufe it feems to refound with thofe forts of 

 Inftruments which the Americans were obferv'd to ufe when difcover'd. 



tihtrtff 4. Pompom m Mela being the third, hath no greater Arguments than the former. 



strange Men. « We hear (fays he) that utmoft People towards the Weft, beiifg the Atlanticans y 



a are rather half Beafts than Men, cloven-footed, without Heads, their Faces 

 i€ upon their Breads, and naked, with one great Foot, like Satyrs or Goblins, 

 u which range up and down, without any Artificial Shelters or Houfes. 



ub. h ca P . 18. Laftly , /Elian feems to fay fomething, when he fets down the Difcourfe be- 



D.fcourfe between Mi- twee n JMidas and Silenus, out of Tbeopompws, where Silenm relates, " That Eu* 



its and SiUaus concerning n 1 11 n 1 J 1 - 



thc unknown World. << rope,J[ia, and Lybia are Iilands; and that a vaft Countrcy lyes beyond this 

 u his tripple-divided World, mighty Populous, and abounding with all other 

 " Living Creatures, as big again as ours, and living twice as long : That they 

 " are wondrous rich 5 their Religions, Laws, and Cuftoms, founded upon 

 " another Morality and Reafon, quite different from ours. They boaft efpe- 

 cc daily of two great Cities, Macbimus and Eufebes ; the Inhabitants of the firft 

 "maintaining themfelves by driving altogether a Trade of War, muttering 

 " up, and filling their numerous Regiments with feveral valiant Nations. The 

 "Lifted Citizens amount in their Mufter-Rolls, all bred to Soldiery, to two 

 €i Millions, of whom few but fcorn either dying bravely by Wounds received 

 " With Flint*edg'd Laths, and Staves, in ftcad of Spears, pointed with Stones, 

 " not knowing the ufe of Iron or Steel, but fo ovcr-ftock'd with Gold and 

 " Silver, that they account it a Drug of lefs Value than our bafeft Metal. 

 " Some Years fince they march'd into our World, a hundred thoufand ftrong, 

 " as far as the Hyperborean Mountains, where being informed, that all the Na* 

 " tions of our World, compared with them, liv'd in a poor and defpicable 

 " condition 5 as not thinking them worth their Conqucft, they return'd. But 



the fecond City Eufebes, deals altogether in Peace, and its Citizens are not ra* 

 pacious, but exercife Juftice, fo much affecting Morality and Divine Wor- 

 " fhip ? that they conquer Heaven by their Piety and Meeknefs ? and the Gods 

 u themfelves are pleas'd to defcend, and advife with them concerning their 

 " Celeftial Affairs. 



Who obferves not this to be a Poetical Relation, (hewing how much better 

 the Acquirements of Peace are, than thofe of War • the one conquering only 

 Men, the other, the Gods } "Nor can more be taken out of JElians Difcourfe, 

 but that the Ancients believ'd there was another Habitable World to be our 

 Antipodes. 



Thus far hath been difputed concerning the Original of the Americans ,whoCc 



Plantations from Tyre or Carthage by Sea, are found altogether invalid : Yet 



inquiries Aether the we will fearch a little further, to fee whether the People Analogize, either in 



Conftitutions of the hhe- ' l 



nicians agree with the a- their Religion, Policy, Occonomv, or Cuftoms. 



mcricans. & J • 1 



It is certain, that the ancient Tbenicians liv'd in Tents, and fometimes ex* 

 chang'd eaten*up Paftures for frelh, which the Americans to this day obferve j 

 by which it might appear, that they are of a <Pbenician Extract. But why not 

 as well derived from J>{umidia i Tartary y or the ancient Patriarchs, who all liv'd 

 fuch an unfettl'd wandering Life I Befides,the'?/;f«/a^/j had a long time given 

 over Paftoral Bufinefs, for Maritime Affairs of greater confequence, not only 

 Merchandizing through all the World, but fending great Colonies in Ships to 



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