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The Flood acknowledge 

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f unary iflands >by whom 

 difcover'd. 



Hifp*ri*M Gardens what 



they fignifie. 



JfjU t\o it TmH Aufirali. 



The Defcription of the 

 unknown South. 



AMERICA. Chap. II; 



the Majefty and Wifdom of Divine Providence, to leave half the Univerfal 

 Globe, a World fully fupply'd with all forts of Creatures, fit for Food and 

 Service, Plants, Herbs, and the richeft Minerals, like a Houfe new built, 

 and well furnifVd, without a Mafter or any Inhabitant, Vi^ Man, who be- 

 ing of Celeftial Extract, fliould be able to acknowledge and glorifie the Crea- 

 tor, by admiring the Creature in his great Works : Befides, the confus'd No- 

 tions and Fables of Giants, Perpetrators of all manner of Crimes, and wal- 

 lowing in all kind of fenfual Debaucheries, are always remembred among the 

 Antiquities of the Americans , and that they had fome (lender hints of antienc 

 Truth,not onely of the Giants before the Flood,but of thofe that foon after the; 

 rank fatnefs of the Earth, produe'd and fed to that pitch of Arrogance, that the 

 covenanting Brethren defi'd God, fortifying themfelvcs to fight him by the ad- 

 vantage of that their long congeftedPile,SdM,which in a fhort time was tranf- 

 verted by the Heathen Poets into their Gigantomachia,\ieaiping Hills on Hills, like 

 the ^weWc^Traditions: From which we may conjefture,that they came thither 

 in the time o(Noai ; for why may not any believe,when Noah liv'd three hun- 

 dred years after he Landed on Mount Ararat , that he took care to People thd 

 World ? And who will make him ignorant of this New World, who living 

 five hundred years before, might not improbably by his own induftry and 

 the help of the former long-liv'd Patriarchs , been well able to make a general 

 Survey of the Old 5 and he could better furnifh America, it being nearer Mount 

 Ararat, than fupply Italy, Spain, Germany, or any Northern Territories in Europe; 

 (o that America might be known to thefirft people after the Flood,nay,inhabit* 

 ed by them, though fince that, the knowledge was loft. 



Pliny complaining of the Supine negligence, and ftupendious iloth which 

 reign'd then and long before as he had obferv'd, among all people, and in eve- 

 ry place, who were fo far from making inquiry after difcoveries of Lands for 

 new Plantations, that they loft the old, when they had begun to fettle, though 

 under the greateft ferenity of Peace 5 The Sea by that means lying open be- 

 yond what any juncture of former times could be proud of. 



Yet the Vortunatept Canary Iflands were in the firft ages after Zfyah, frequented 

 with VefTels, which in later times were altogether neglected, till GuiUaum !Betan» 

 court, a Gentleman oiPicardye, brought them again to be taken notice of by a 

 frefli Trade, The Fable of the Hejperian Gardens, and the Dragon that kept the 

 Golden Fruit, with conftarit Vigils, is nothing but anallufion to the Sea, which 

 with Serpentine Embraces, not onely fecur'd thefe fcatter'd Ifles, but fwal- 

 low'd up feveral Adventurers that too hardy made their unhappy approaches 

 for difcovery. 



Another Allegation for the Planting of America by Land, both whofe fides 

 are waih'd on the Eaft and Weft, by the South and Atlantick Ocean, may be 

 thus probably made out : The Atlantick rowlspver with almoft Fathomlefs 

 Waters, three thoufand Leagues of Ground ^ the South-Sea not much lefs, 

 which well may be , being indeed but one cortfinu'd Sea , encompaffiog , till 

 meeting there, the Univerfal Ball ; whence fprings a more likelyhood, that 

 America might be Planted from the Southern parts, from the Straights oi Magel- 

 lan, and Le-Mayr, 



Peter Fernandes de Quir relates, That he and a Commander, Lodowick Paes U 

 Torres faw a part of the South Countrey, and in it innumerable Inhabitants, 

 Whites, Slacks, Sallows, with long, black, curl'd, Woolly, and yellow Hair. 

 They know no Walls or Fortrefles for Defence, Laws or Kings, but are divided 



into 



