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The Preface 
H£ Terrefirid World is 
by our learned Geogra- 
phers divided into foti/ 
farts y Europe Afia ^ 
Africa and America (a 
named from Americus 
Vefpucius the Florentine^ Seven years 
after Columbus 5 althougfj Columbus 
and Cdbot^. deferved rather the honour 
of being Godfathers to it : mtvcithjland.^ 
ing by this name it is novo known to usy 
but was utterly unknovpn to the Anci- 
ent ^\X(.Qi^t2Si% be fore their times-y Ivoill 
not fay to the,^/V^;^i" and Aftans^ for 
Platomliis Time us relateth of a great 
Ifland;^ called Atlantis , and l^hilo the 
JevQ in his book mundo^ that it was 
over-flowen with water, by reafon of 
a mighty Earthquake 5 The like hap- 
pened 
