t J\(ey> ^Atlantis. 
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! Boat to be foftly,and withfilence rowed towards the Pillar.fi«f ere 
I he came neere it , the Pillar and Croflc of Light brake <vp, andcafl 
| it (elfe abroad , as it were,into a Firmament of many Starves ; which 
| alfo"vanishedfoone after , and there was nothing left to bejeenfut a 
(mail Arke, or Chclt of Cedar, dry, and not wet at all with water, 
though it/warn. And in the Fore-end of it, which was towards him , 
grew afmallgreene Branch of Palme , And when the wife man bad 
taken it with all reuerencejnto his Boat,it opened of it [elfe,and there 
j were found in it,a Bookc ,and aLcttcr-,Both written irifine Parch- 
| ment, and wrapped in Sindons ofLinnen . The Bookc conteined aU 
I the Canonical! Books of the Old 4»^Ncw Teftamen t,according 
• as you bane them ; ( For we know weS what the Churches with you 
I receiue,)And ^eApocalyple it (elfe,Andfotne other Bookes of the 
! New Tcltamcnr, which were not at that time written , were neuer- 
j thelejfe in the Booke. And for the Letter, it was in thefe words . 
I Bartholomew, a Serum of the Higbeft, and 
sJpofile oflzsvs Christ, Tpos warned by 
an ngell that appeared to mee, in a vifion of flory 7 { 
that /fhouldcommit this Arke to the flouds of the Sea. 
7 bereforef doe teftifie and declare> vnto that 'People , j 
where God jhall ordaine this Arke to come to Land , I 
that in the fame day is come into them Saluation , and 
Peace, and (food Witt, from the Father ,andfrom the 
Lord Iesvs. j 
* 
There was alfo in both thefe writings,as well the Bookc, as the 
Letter, wrought a great Miracle, Conforms to that of the Apoftics, 
in the Originall Gift of Tongues. For there being at that time, in j 
this L48df,Hebrcwes, Perfians,4»^ Indians, befides tbeNatiues, j 
euery one read <~vpon the Book ,and Letter ,at if they had been writ¬ 
ten in his owne Language. And thus was this Land faued from in - 
fidelity , (as the R emaitte of the Old World was from Water) by an 
A rkc,tbrougb the Apoftolicall and Miraculous Euangelifme of S. 
Bartholomew. And here heepaufed, andaM^flenger came, 
and 
