3\£ev> Atlantis. 



Buildings in many places, higher than the Depth of the Watery Yet 

 that Inundation, though it titer e /hallow , bad a long Continuance • j 

 whereby they of the Vale , that were not drowned , peri/bed for want of } 

 Food, and other things necejjary. So as marVell you not at the thin 

 (population of America , nor at the Pjideneffe and Ignorance of the 

 People } For you muft account your Inhabitants of America as ayoung 

 \ People - } younger a thoufaud years , at the leaft, than the rett of the 

 I World For that there "was fo much time, between the Univerfal 

 Flood , and their Particular Inundation. For the poor %emnant of 

 Humane Seed % "tobich remained in their Mountains , Peopled the 

 Comtrie again jhwly , by little and little; And being fimple andafa- 

 \vage People (Not like Noah and his Sons , which "was the chief 

 Family of the Earth ) they "were not able to leave Letters ] Arts, and 

 Civility to their Pofterity; And having likeVcnfe in their Mount at- 

 \nOus Habitations been ufed , {in refpetl of the Extreme Cold of 

 thofe Regions ) to cloath themfelves with the Skinnes of Tygers 

 <Beares , and great Hairy Coats , that they haVe in thofe Parts; 

 When afer they came down into the Valley , and found the intolerable 

 \ \ Heats which are there, and knew no means of lighter A pparell } 

 I \ they were forced to begtn the cuflome of Going Naked, "which continu~ 

 [ si eth at this day. Only they take great Pride and delight , in the 

 j Feathers of (Birds; And this alfo they took from thofe their Ance- 

 fiors of the Mountains, who were invited unto it, by the infi- 

 nite Flight of (Birds , that came up to the high Grounds , "while 

 the Waters flood below. So you fee , by this main Accident 

 of Time , "we loft our Traffique with the Amercians , "with whom, 

 of all others , in regard 3 they lay nearefi to us , "we had moft 

 Commerce. As for the other Parts cf the World, it is moft manU 

 feH 9 that in the Ages following, (whether, it were in refpetl 

 of Wanes , or by a Natural Revolution of Time , \ Naviga- 

 tion did eVety where greatly decay, And fpecially , fane Voy- 

 Ljfe (the rather by the life if C 'allies , and fuch Veffels 

 I as cculd hardly brook the Ocean ) were altogether left and omitted, 

 S* then , that Part cf Entercourfe 3 "which could he from other 

 Nations , to fay I to us$ycu fee ho"w it hath long fence ceafed-J 

 I Except it "toere by K feme rare Accident, as this of yours, (But 

 j now of the Cejfation of that ether Part of Entercourfe', which mought 

 ,be by our Sayling to other Nations, I muft yield you feme o- 

 ther Caufe. For I cannot fay , (if I Jhould fay truly, ) but our 

 Shipping , for Number , Strength 9 Mariners, Pylots f and m 

 things that appertain to Navigation, is as great as ever; And 



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