Tartary is not parted from 

 America by the Str* ights of 

 Am an. 





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4-° AMERICA. Chap. II, 



guagc and Pcrfons 5 nor Africans , hecaufe that in all the far.fpreading Coun> 

 trey of America, not one %ro is to be found, except a few near the River Mar- 

 tha, in the little Territory Quare^ua, which muft by Storm be drove thither 

 vrltv' and chicflyout ^ rom thcVuinny Coaft : So that ^^ the Mother of all People,, onely remains 

 to be Implanter of our America, whofe Weftern Coaft, oppofite to Afia, is more 

 inhabited than to the Eaft, where it refpects Europe. 



Moreover, Armenia, out of which, by Noah's Progeny, the whole Earth was 

 re*peopled , borders on Scythia, now call'd Tartary , and Tartary faces America, 

 feparated onely by the Straights of Anian. though fame are of opinion, that 

 out of the South into the Frozen Sea, there is no paflage thorow thefe Straights^ 

 elfe (as we have already prov d the contrary) how came all thofe Voracious 

 and Poyfonous Beafts into America, if it be clearly feparated from Afia by 

 Sea ? 



It deferves here to be related, what happened to Henry Corneli/on Schaep, and 

 William tByleVeld, Sailing from Batatia to difcover the Tartarick River Tolyfange, 

 but were taken and carry'd Prifoners to the Japan Court at Jedo . being Com- 

 manded there by Order of the Councel to give an account of & Japan Map or 

 Card, which was laid before them, and contained the Provinces of Japan, Am- 

 boina, the Molucca Iflands, Manilha, the South-Sea, Borneo, Celebes, Malacca, Tartary, 

 Formofa, Corea, and the vaft and Mountainous Countrey or Defart of Jejfo, fepa! 

 rated from Japan by the Straights of Sungar h though toward the North,it joyns to 

 Japan in the Province of Ochio^ and beginning in forty feven degrees, run 

 North-Eafl: towards America, but they could notpoffible find the Straights of 

 Mian . but on the contrary, the Promontory of Tartary, *i% the Province %*- 

 taya or IQitui lay in the fame parallel with the Northern America. 



Hereto may be added, that Jfia hath no Territory any where, which may- 

 more eafily with numerous Colonies fupply America than this part of Tartary, zs 

 well for the vaftnefs of the Countrey, to which no other can compare, as for 

 the increafing of the Inhabitants : Who doth not admire , that according to 

 Urn* 9 .\. 6 ; Muhalon Lithouwer, there is fcarce a City in Tartary that boafted lefs than a thou- 

 fand Temples ? and to fee Canguifta firft King of Tartary, about the Year 1200, 

 in Arms ; and his Succelfor Hoccata following his Fathers bloody Footfteps, 

 whilfthc prepared his Sons with three vaft Armies? The eldeft Son, Jachis, 

 March'd Weftward with thirty thoufand Horfe . fBatho drew with as great aa 

 Army towards the North 5 Tagladais being the youngeft fell into the Moores 

 Countrey above'H^f. Hoccata himfelf March'd viftorioufly into the Nojth 

 America, fubdu'd great part of the Terjian Kingdom, and beat the Turks, led by 

 the General Goniata with a great Army, Anno 1241. as Jacob Planenfts and <Bene* 

 diHm Sarmata, two Monks, fent by Pope Innocent to Hoccata, witnefs : The great 

 number of the Tartars or Scythians , may appear by the feveral people, fpread 

 far and near over Tartary . Pliny reckons fome of them, -vi^. Auchetes, l^euri, Ge- 

 loni, Tlmffagetes, ®udini y Bafilides, Jgathyrfi, pomades', Anthropophagi, Hyperborei, 

 Arimphei, Ctmmenj, Cuianthi, Ceorgi, Sacores, and others : What number would 

 the Inhabitants make up that live in America, in Teneneuf, Virginia, Florida, New 

 Spain, Guadalaiara } Guatemala, Terra firma, Neip Granada, Peru, Chili, $(io de la Plata 

 Brajil, Guaiana, New Andalu^ai i 



It will be worth our time, to compare the likenefs between the Scythians and 

 Northern Americans ; both of them are difference with fpecial Marks of a more 

 than ordinary and natural diftance between the Eyes, which much alters the 

 whole Air of the Face, and the plumpnefs and fwelling of their Cheeks fum- 



mits 



Tefa monies-that the Ami' 

 titans are Tartars. 



