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ny American words end with Lan, which fignifie nothing lefs than Land : for 

 the Mexicans fay Tuertatitlan, which fignifies At the Gate below ; Ochachitlant^itlan, 

 let lower ; Tehoxtitlan, (this City is alfo call'd from her Founder Mxh, Mexico) 

 that is, ^efts on a <I(ock. Moreover, it may not without reafon feem ftrange to 

 any, that the Northern Americans have remembred but three Cities out of all 

 the Teutonick Tongue, V/^. Lan in ftead Land. 



Concerning Groenland, through which the Norwegians are thought to have yt f™ nUni whcn difco " 

 travell'd to America, Lyfander witnefoth, That it was accidentally difcover'd strm. 3. A**!. Da»u: 

 by one Eric %auder, Anno 987. and planted thirteen years after. 



Olaus, King of Norway, plac'd two Bifhops over the new Inhabitants, as Sub- 

 ftitutes to the Archbifhop ofDrontben. For four Ages they Sail'd frequently to 

 Groenland} but fince their King was impoverifli'd by War, they left off that 

 Trade. 



We find not in any Author, that the Norwegians which liv'd along the Sea- 

 Ihore, ever went to feek a Way over the inacceffible Snowy Mountains of 

 Groenland, to this our New World. 



Befides, Grotius (lands for the Norwegians as Planters, upon teftimony of the 

 Mexicans themfelves, who told the Spaniards, That their Anceftors which plant- 

 ed there came from the ]S[orth, firft fetling themfelves on EJlotiland, where to 

 this day there are not improbable proofs by feverai remarks, that they were a 

 Norwegian Colony. 



In the Jmerican City Norumbega, live a People that fpeak the fame Language, J^i^g^^J 

 and obferve the fame Cuftoms with the Mexicans. Amiricm * 



In this by*Corner are found alfo fome AlaMards, or Longobards, or Lombards, 

 as they fay. Now the Spaniards call that New Mexico becaufe laft difcover'd, 

 though indeed the old, cramm'd with People eight hundred years fince : for 

 the Mexicans of New Mexico do not lie Co far Northerly, as to the North-weft ; 

 for this SMexico lies in fight of California, which is believ'd to border on Tartary, 

 or at lead feparated from it by a narrow Channel. But Norumbega, ( if ever 

 fuch a Place was) muft, according to the Weft-Indian Records, have been fituate 

 where a part of New France lies, now planted by the Englijh : between which 

 and New Mexico lies an almoft unmeafurable vaft Tract of Land. Mean while 

 here is not the leaft fign of this City Norumbega to be found : neither do the In- 

 habitants dwell in Cities, but live in Tents, or moveable Villages, which 

 change their Names as oft as their Governors. Moreover, the Norwegians could 

 riot get to this Norumbega by Land through IJland and Groenland to EJlotiland, 

 becaufe of the vaft Bays, and great Midland-Sea, difcover'd by the Englijb in 

 their North-weftern Difcoveries ; fo that leaving Fftotilarid, it was altogether 

 impoflible for them to come to Norumbega. 



Hereto may be added what the Mexicans fay of themfelves, who acknow- 

 ledge, That travelling from the North, they did not find an uninhabited 

 Countrey before them, but were fore'd to make their Way by a long and 

 bloody War with the Ckichimecen, a falvage People, that knew neither Laws or c ium«4 



Religion. 



The People alfo dwelling oppofite to California, differ from the Cuftoms of 

 the Mexicans, being divided into feverai People of contrary Conftitutions, and 

 as different Languages. 



Grotius fcrues up his Arguments from the likenefs of the American Speech arid cuftoms and conftiw- 

 Cuftoms with the Norwegian : for (fays he) there is little difference between ° 

 Tagod and by -God, ox like God ? GuairazriA Waeijer, that hi J Fan- llama arid Lam, 



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