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Bmmans Opinion. they were of, and from what Countrey and People derived ? receiv'd no : other 

 Anfwer, but that America only was their native Countrey, and that they were 

 deriv'd from no other elfewhere. But though the Peruvians are of this Opi* 



Andaiforhc Mexicans, nion, yet the Mexicans are of another mind.giving the Spaniards & far better Ac- 



of th.ir Original. 7 J ? ° *> \ 



count when nrit they came thither, wherein we muft a little deviate, vi^. How 

 they were rcmov'd from fome other place, as Robert Comt&us relates , who 

 with many Learned and feemingly true Arguments affirms, That the Original 

 of the Americans muft be fought for either among the Phenicians >Sydonians Syrians , 

 Lb. T .ca t 7. 7 . or Carthaginians, being indeed all one People. Herodotus faith thus of the Phen'u 



dans, " They liv'd formerly, according to their own Relation, along the Shore 

 " of thc7(ed*Sea i from whence removing, they planted the Sea-Coaft of the 

 *' Syrians- Fejlus Avienus the Latin Poet agrees with this Opinion,wherehe faith, 



On the Phenicians Coajis the Ocean beats, 



Who through the Red-Sea Sailing, changd their Seats. 



They were the firjl that Venturd through the Seas, 



And freighted Ships with richer Merchandise : 



Fair or foul Weather, Tiny without controuk ! 



Sought Foreign Trade , directed by the Pole. 



original and Habitati- Ariftotle from a Greek Word calls them Phenicians. from their being red or 



ons of the Phenictans >°f |f "^ 1 1 1 1 r 



whom, accordingtoftrerai bloody with the. Slaughter of all Strangers that Landed on their Coaft ♦ but 



Learned, the A mericans are 1 1 r • 1 1 1 111 ' 



rather, and fo indeed they are call' a Phenicians, or Erythreans, from Efau, or 

 Edom, from whom they are deriv'd; for thefe two Words, or Denominations, 

 iignifie in Greek , <%ed • the two laft , the like in Hebrew. Phenix him* 

 felf firft planted all the Countrey lying between the River Eleutherus, and 

 the Egyptian City Pelujium ; and afterwards Vamiata , wafh'd by the Medi* 

 terrane : But fince, thefe Boundaries are altered, on the North, by Judea . Weft- 

 ward, by the Mediterrane ; Southerly, by Egypt -, and towards the Eaft, by the 

 Dcfart jirabia. 



The chiefeft Cities are Ptolemau, otherwifc call'd Aeon, Sidon, Arad, Great Ca* 

 m, Sarepta, 'Biblis, Bothris, Berithus, and their Princefs Tyre, formerly fcituate in 

 an Ifle, but fince joyn'd to the Main-Land by Alexander the Great. 



None can difown, but that the Phenicians have every where been Admirals 

 of the Sea ; fo that they were formidable to the greateft Princes. When the 

 Perfian King Qambyfes came with a vaft Army againft the Carthaginians, he was 

 fore'd to give over his Deilgn, becaufe the Phenicians refused to help him with 

 their Fleet, being allied to, and the City founded by them : But they not only 

 sahftinigtmh*. built Carthage , which ftrove with %ome to be the Emprefs of the World,but alfo 

 the famous. Cities Leptis, Utica, Hippo, and Adrumetum in Africa, with Cadt^znd 

 Tarteffm in Spain . nay, they fent Plantations of People into the Heart of Iberia 

 and Lybia. It will not be amifs to add Q^Curtim his Relation, who tells us, 

 p/JSf 1P ° wer9fthe " Wherc-cvcr the Phenicians came with their Fleets, Landing their Men, they 

 " fubdu'd whole Countreys, and by that means Jfpread their Colonies over the 

 " known World ; Carthage in Africa, Thebes in Boetta, and CWi^near the Weflern 

 " Ocean. Ari/lotle relates, " That they made fuch rich Returns of their Mer- 

 " chandize, and chiefly of their Oyl, in Spain, that their Anchors, Pins, and 

 a all Iron Materials belonging to a Ship, in (lead of that Metal, were Silver. 



But to return to our Difcourfe, and difprovc the former Teftimony, That 

 the Phenicians found America. The formention'd Comtek* faith thus ; ff None 



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