COLLECTIONS 



IN i 



VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS 



OF 



LITERATURE, 



ORIGIN OF THE FICTIONS 



CONCERNING THE 



LAND OF DOHADa 



SoON after the difcovery of America, a report 

 was current in Spain, and thence got into circulation 

 through all Europe, of a country which Nature fcemed 

 to have made the repolitory of her moll fplertdid and 

 furnptuQus treasures. It was well known, though no 

 man had been there, that, in this country, wherever 

 it was* 'the fand was gold-duft, the flints were dia- 

 monds, and the rocks were gold and lilver ore ; that 

 the beds of its rivers were compofed of pearls and 

 grains of maffive gold ; and that rubies, emeralds, ame- 



vol, i. s thyftsj 



