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hundred ftrong Ships, of great content .Ofall this, there is witbyeu 
Jparing Memory,or none > ©#* *#>£<? large Knowledge thereof. 
At that time, this Land was knowneand frequented by the Ships 
andVeJfeSs of all the Nations before named . And{as it commeth to 
paffe) they had many times Men of other Countries, that were no 
Saylers , that came with them,As Perfians, Chaldeans, Arabians; 
So as almoft all Nations of Might and Fame reported hither ; Of\ 
whom, Toe baue fomeStirps, and little Tribes withes-, at this day. 
And for our owe Ships, they went fundry Voyages , as Well to your] 
Streighcs, which you call the Pillars ^/Hercules, As to other parts \ 
in the Atlantique and Medirerrane Seas j As to Paguiri, (which l 
is the fame with Cambalaine^) and Quinzy, ypon the Oriental! 
Seas, asfarre as to the Borders of the Eaft Tarcary. 
A t the fame time,and an Age after,or more, the Inhabitants of the 
great Atlantis didflourifb. For though the Narration andDefcrip- 
tion which is made by a great Man with you, that the Dependents 
o/Neptune planted there', and of the Magnificent Temple , PaUace, 
City, and Hid-, and the manifold flreames of goodly Nauigable 
^iuers, {which as fo many Chaines enuironed the fame Site, and 
Temple ; And tbe feuerall Degrees of Afcent, whereby Men did climb 
1 yp to the fameyts if it had bin a Scala Cadi; be all Poetic all and Fa¬ 
bulous: Yet fo much is true, that the faid Countrey of Atlantis; As 
well that of Peru then called Coya^ as ihat of Mexico then named 
Tyramb c\,Were mighty and proud Jfingdomes ,in Armes, Shipping, 
and Riches : So mighty , as at one time, {or at leaft within the pace 
ofio. Yeares, ) they both made two great Expeditions; They of 
Tiramb Citborow the Aclancique to the Mediccrrane Sea; and 
they of Coya thorow the South Sea <vpon this our Ifland: And for 
the former of thefe,which was into Europe, the fame Authour a- 
mongfl you, [as it feemeth,) badfome relation from the Egyptian 
Vdcii,whom he citeth For ajfuredlyfuch a thing there was. But whe¬ 
ther it were the Ancient Athenians, that had the glory of the Re - 
pulfe,andRefifiance of thofe Forces , J can fay nothing : But certain e 
it is there neuer came backe, either Ship, or Man , from that Voyage. 
Neither had the other Voyage of thofe 0 /Coya nopon Us fad better 
fortune ifthey had not met with Enemies of greater clemency For 
the King of this Ifland,{by name Altabin,) a wife Man,and a great 
Warrisr, } 
