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The America** are de- 

 rived from feveral people. 





Marian, it Xjb. Hifp, 

 1.I.C 18. 





Znglijh famous Sca-mm 



Barat-anac, or, rfttlaud, 

 the Phenician name , and 

 Brinania the Cree^ name 



viErittaitt. 



Old Voyage olMM to 

 America j for which lee Fitf. 

 Bifi.Brit. 



W Potttlin Hftoii* 



Camln'i*). 





A M E%JC A. Clmp. II. 



that it was not onely Planted from the firft, but feveral tiroes replenifh'd fince 

 by various Nations , Why may not feveral Planters, and at feveral times make 

 room for their Colonies, incroaching one upon another, either by force or 

 com pad • as the French themfelves upon the Gauls, the Kormms upon them, 

 the Goths among the Spaniards, and the Saxons among the 'Brittains, and the Nor- 



mans again upon them ? " «i V 



Several people may eafily Sail over thither, the Azores or the Canary Ifles lye 

 fo that they are readyfas if defign d)forTranfportation to^mew^from whence 

 Acofta made a Voyage in fifteen days. Alfo Pliny gives us an account, that thefe 

 Iflands lay uninhabited in his time; yet is it well known, that after Phn/s 

 time, Ruins of Buildings were found there, fignifying, they had been former- 

 ly Planted; and why might not thofe ancient Inhabitants Sail thence to the 



neighboring America ? . 



Tercera lying half way between Spain and America, was frequented by Navi. 

 eators before theBirthofour Savior; and it fcems as eafie to Sail from thence 

 fo America, as from the Main Land of Spain thither : Add this , that necefllty 

 fore'd the Spaniards to look about them from other Countreys, for fince they 

 loft their Victorious Champion <Baucim Gapetus , they were every where bea- 

 ten, being tired out by the Phenician Forces, and that oppreffion over, fuffer'd 

 as much under the P^man Yoke : Wherefore it feemsnot ftrange, if a con. 

 fiderable number remov'd from thence , that they might live fome where elfe 

 in quiet • for which purpofe they wanted no conveniencies to Rig and fet 

 forth ftout' and fufficient Veffels, able to live in thofe Seas, having had long 

 experience from the Phenician Voyagers, whofe Fleets Sail'd daily to and again 

 in feyeral Expeditions, from Cadi*, and Gibraltar towards thefe Weftern Coun- 

 treys : Nay, Hanno himfelf their firft Navigator that way, who gives an account 

 of the Gorgons, or the Ifles of (aft Verd, a good part of the way to America. 



And though 'Brittain, Ireland, and the ®r<»</fc Orcades lay further from America", 

 yet fomething may be faid particularly to prove, That many Ages fince, Ex- 

 peditions had been made from thence to the New World ; and that the 

 Inhabitants of thefe our Ifles, in former Ages, were peculiarly famous for their: 

 skill in Navigation • infomuch, that the Cretans and Phenicians emulous of their 

 skill, and jealous of their danger, made feveral Attacques and Invafions upon 

 thefe Ifles, which is the more probable , many remarks of the Phenician and 

 Greek Language, remaining in the denominations of the Countrey : Of which, 



take firft this account : 



Anno 1170. When Owen Gnyneth, Prince of Wales, having Raign'd long and 

 happily in his fetled Dominions, dying, left feveral Sons, who quarrelling, 

 their elder Brother, as not contented with their fliares of the Principality, nor 

 to be under him, having gotten no mean Interefts and Claims to the whole by 

 their ftruglings, fo weakned one another, that they open'd a way to the loo : 



fingofall. 



Amongft thefe Brothers, Madok, a Prince of a milder difpofition, weary of 

 fuch unnatural Diflentions, threw up his fliare, better contented to feek new 

 Fortunes abroad ; whereupon there were many foon perfwaded to venture 

 their lives with him, where ever he would pleafe to Tranfport : So Rigging 

 afmallFleet, he Sail'd Weftward , far beyond Ireland , whereat laft he dif- 

 cover'd an unknown and uninhabited Countrey, but wondrous pleafant, the 

 Air being temperate, and the Soyl moft fertile : Glad of this good fuccefs (as 

 the Story fays) he returning, fpreading the Fame of this his Newfoundland, 



which 



