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a common fize might have probably at firft produ- 

 ced thofe Coloflus's, as may be feen in the modern 

 accounts of Virginia and Senegal. Hitherto he 

 has advanced nothing new, mod of thefe obferva- 

 tions having been made before : afterwards he has 

 fomething, which is not only new, but which is alia 

 peculiar to himfelf ; he paflfes from probability to 

 certainty, and from conjectures to pofitive aflertions ; 

 and this method once tried, he carries it to a great 

 length ; fo that if we follow him, we fhall find him 

 fufficiently entertaining, and at times faying very 

 good things. 



Omitting the confideration of the Scythians, 

 whom he fuppofes to have entered America by the 

 North, and there to have made the firft fettlements, 

 he eftablifhes a firft migration of the Phenicians, by 

 laying it down for a principle, that from the earlieft 

 times they have been great navigators, and have 

 replenished all our hemifphere with their colonies : 

 but it is to be obferved, that under the name of 

 the Phenicians, he likewife comprehends the Cana- 

 anites. From Strabo he learns, that the Phenicians 

 failed into the Atlantick Ocean, and built cities 

 beyond the pillars of Hercules. Appian, continues 

 he, and Paufanias inform us, that the Carthaginians, 

 who were originally Phenicians, covered all the 

 ocean with their fleets ; that Hanno made the tour 

 of Africk ; and that the Canaries were known to 

 the ancients. We know, from other authorities, 

 that the Phenicians, fettled in Africa, waged long 

 and bloody wars with the natives of the country, 

 who deftroyed above three hundred of their cities in 

 Mauritania. Eratofthenes is his warrant for this, 

 and he prefers the authority of that ancient writer 

 to that of Strabo and Artemidorus, who coatradid 

 hirn. Whither could the Phenicians, adds be, have 

 P 3 retire^ 



