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retired, after fo many and great lofles, but to Ame- 

 rica ? 



This migration being poffible, he looks upon it 

 of courfe as certain, and to have been very ancient -, 

 but he laughs at Opmeer, who had advanced, that 

 the Africans living in the neighbourhood of Mount 

 Atlas, failed to America before the deluge. He 

 imagines Plato may poftibly be miftaken in fome 

 things he has faid of Atalantis, but that his defcrip- 

 tion is notwithftanding founded on truth. He ob- 

 ferves, that all thofe iflands to the weftward of Afri- 

 ca, have been called Atlantides, and he reckons it 

 probable, that the Atalantis of Plato lay in Ame- 

 rica, and that it was drowned in a deluge, of which 

 there ftill remain fome flender traditions among the 

 Americans. Further, he fays, that according to 

 Peter Martyr d'Anglerie, the inhabitants of the 

 Antilles report, that all their iflands were formerly 

 joined to the continent, and had been feparated from 

 it by earthquakes and great inundations : that the 

 veftiges of a deluge are found in Peru to this day, 

 and that all South America is full of water. He 

 might have added, that the north part of America, 

 or New France, alone contains a greater quantity 

 of water than all the reft of that vaft continent be- 

 fides. 



Diodorus Siculus relates, that the Phenicians fail- 

 ed far into the Atlantick Ocean, and that being 

 conftrained by tempefcuous weather, they landed 

 upon i large ifland, where they found a fruitful 

 foil, navigable rivers, and magnificent edifices. De 

 Hornn takes this to be the fecond migration of that 

 people to America. Diodorus adds, that in the 

 iequel the Phenicians being harrafled by the Cartha- 

 ginians and the inhabitants of Mauritania, who 



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