J\£ew Mantis. 



he fpakc it but merrily. That we were apt enough to think, there 

 Unas famewbat Jupernatwal in this IJland , but yet rather as A ngelical 

 than Magical. (But to let his Lordflhip know truly , what it was that 

 made us tender and doubtful! to ask this Quejiiw , it "was not any fitch 

 conceit , but becaufe we remembred , hee had given a Touch in fak 

 former Speech i that this Land had Laws of Secrecy touching Stran- 

 gers . To this he (aid ; Ton remember it aright : And therefore in that 

 I fball/aj to you y I muft nferVe fome particulars , which it is not law* 

 fiuU for me to repeal but thire mill be enough left to give ymfattf- 

 foBion. 



! Ton fiatt unkrfiani ( that "which perhaps you will fcarce think 

 I credible ) that about three thoufand Tears ago , or fomewhat more j 

 the Navigation of the World {fpe daily for remote Voyages) was great- 

 \er than at this Toy. Do not think H>'\fh your fdVes , That I know 

 [not btfw much it is increafed with you, w.thin the/e threef cm Tears: 

 I how it wdl } And yet I fay } greater then, than now * Whether it 

 was , that the example of the Ark , that JaVed the (Remnant of Men, 

 from the univerfal Deluge , gaVe Men confluence tv adventure upon 

 \the Waters ; Or what it wat; But fuch is the truth. The Phoenice- 

 ans, and fpecially the Tyrians, ba^great Fleets- So had the Car- 

 thaginians their Colony, which is jet further Weft- Toward theEafl 

 the Shipping of Egypt, and of Paleftina,Th*j likewife great. China 

 alfo , and the great Atlantis, ( that you call America ) which have 

 »o> but lunks , and Camas, abounded then in tall Ships, This 

 ' IJland 9 (as appear eth by fahhfull %egtflers of thfe times) had then 

 fifteen hundred flrong Ships, of great content- Of all this } there is 

 with you f paring Memory, or none; (But we have large knowledge 

 1 thereof. 



Jt that time, this Land was known and frequented (y the Ships 

 and Veffcls if all the Nations beforenamed- Jnd (as it commeth. to 

 paffe) they had many times Men of other Countries, that taere no Say- 

 \iers, that came with them-, Aj Per Hans, Chaldeans, Arabians,- 

 l So as almofl all Nations of Might and Fame njorted hither; Of 

 whom , wt haVe fin e Stirps , and little Tribes H>itb us , at this day. 

 Jnd for our otzn Ships, they went fwdry Voyages , as well to your 

 Su eights, which you call //;<? Pillars of Hercules, A s to other parts in 

 \tht Atlantique^Mediterrane Seas ; As to Pagufn, ("which is the 

 fame "frith Cambalaine ) and Quinzy, upon the Oriental Seas, as far 

 as to the Borders of the Eaft Tartary. 



At the fame time y and an Age after , or more, the Inhabitants of 

 the great Atlantis did flowifk- For though the Narration andDe r 



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