NKW ATLANTIS. 



A WORK UNFINISHED. 



IV ri I ten by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Venilctrr., 

 Viscount 67. A I bans. 



TO THE READER. 



This fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model 01 

 description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing 

 of great and marvellous works for the benefit of man, under ihe name of Solomon s 

 House, or the College of the Six Days Works. And even so far his lordship hath 

 proceeded as to finish that part. Certainly the model is more vast and high than 

 can possibly be imitated in a. , things, notwithstanding most things therein are 

 within men s power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable to 

 have composed a frame of laws, or the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; 

 but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the natural history 

 diverted him, which he preferred many degrees before it. This work of the New 

 Atlantis (as much as conccrneih the English edition) his lordship designed for this 

 place.. 



W. RAWLKY. 



NKW ATLANTIS. 



WE sailed from Peru, where we had continued for the space of one 

 whole year, for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taking with us 

 victuals for twelve months, and had good winds from the cast, though 

 soft and weak, for five months space and more ; but then the wind 

 came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could 

 make little or no way, and were sometimes in purpose to turn back. 

 But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, 

 with a point east, which carried us up, for all that we could do, 

 towards the north ; by which time our victuals failed us, though we 

 had made good spare of them. So that, finding ourselves in the midst 

 of the greatest wilderness of waters in the world, without victuals, we 

 gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift 

 up our hearts and voices to God above, &quot; who showeth his wonders in 

 the deep,&quot; beseeching him of his mercy, that as in the beginning he 

 discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so he 

 would now discover land to us, that we might not perish. And it came 

 to pass that the next day about evening we saw, within a kenning 



