: 
. prophetical, 
1810.] Scarce 
ning downe and participating with the 
salt hills, tasts brackish at his fall into 
the vaileyes, which are but two, and 
those very small, having their appella- 
tions from a lemmon tree above, anda 
ruined chappell placed beneath, built by 
the Spaniard, and delapidated by the 
Dutch. Their bas been‘a village about 
it, lately depopulated from her inha- 
bitants, by command from the Spanish 
king, for thatit became an vnlawfu ll ma- 
gazine of seamen’s treasure, 10 ie 
and returning out of both the Indie 
whereby he ‘Jost. both tribute and tt 
-rogative in apparant measure. 
“¢ Monuments of antique beings, nor 
other rarities, can be found here. You 
see all, if you view the ribs: of an old 
carrick, and some broken pieces of her 
ordnance left their’ against the owner’s 
good will or approbation : goats and 
hogs are the now dwellers, wid multiply 
in great abundance, and (though anh 
lingly) affoord themselves to hungry and 
sea-beaten passagers: it has store of 
partrich and gainea-hens, all which were 
brought thither by the honest Portugal, 
who now dare neither anchor there, nor 
owne their labours, lest the English, or 
Flemmings, question them. 
“ The ile is very evenjand delightful 
above, and gives a large prospect into the 
ocean, "Tis a saying with the sea-men, 
a man there has his ch: nice, whether he 
will breake his heart going up, or 
his 
necke comining downe, either wish be- 
stowing more jocundity then comfort: 
and here we left buried our bonest cap- 
taine Andrew Evans.” 
The clesiig section of the volume is 
devoted to ‘“ A: Discourse and Proofe 
that Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd firs 
found out that Continent now called 
America.” Having stated the proba- 
bility, as well as various traditions, that 
the ancients were in some measure ac- 
quainted with the transa atlantic world, 
Mr. Herbert repeats the celebrated pas- 
sage in Seneca’s Medea: | 
Venient annis 
Secula seris, quibus Qceanus © 
Vincuia rerum laxet, et ingens 
Pateat tellus, Typhisque novos 
*~ Detegat orbes, nec sit terris 
Vitima Thule: 
following it with some lines, supposed 
of Taliessin: by whose 
verses prince Madoc appears to have 
been induced to go upon his voyage of 
discovery, 
He is said to have left his country in 
» the year 1170; and at last to have de- 
Tracts, We. 
“year wh 
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‘bestowed on him, 
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scried land in the gulph of Mexico, “ not 
farre from Florida.” Laving elected a 
settlement, he returned to Wales, leaving 
a hundred and twenty persons beRind 
him, Waving engaged some more of his 
countrymen to accompany him, he is 
stated to have. made a second: voyage 5 
and to bave remained with his followers 
for the rest of their lives, in the New 
World, All intercourse having been 
broken off, and broits ensuing in their 
native country, they and their expedition 
are supposed to have been alike for- 
gotten. On this story, it will be remem- 
bered, Mr, Southey has founded | his 
poem. / 
“eA Treatise of Religion and Learning, 
and of Religious ind Learned Men. 
Consisteng of Sit Books. ‘The two 
just tr eating of Religion and Learning; 
the four last of Religious, or Learned 
Men, in un ‘Alphabetical Order. A 
Work seasonable for these Times,where~ 
in Religion and Lear ‘ning have so many 
Pines By Ed ward. Leigh, Master 
of Aris, of Mac tales Hall, vz Onjord 
London [1656], fol, 
Of the diiferent books of which this 
work is composed, the four last, it will 
be easily perceived, at the present day, 
must be the most interesting, Weselect 
from them a few anecdotes of well. 
known characters. 
“ &. Benjunun, a famous Jewish geo- 
es Hebrew Itinerary is 
pullished, cum versione et notis Cone 
stantinl L’Empereur.—Vide ejus past. 
Dedicat. 
“Tle was a Spaniard, and died in the 
year a B: ito Christo 1173, in that very 
erein he returned frem lis 
voyage.” 
“<< Frajanus Boccalinus. 
** Sir Isaac Wake called his Collections 
of Pernassus, the first satyre in prose; 
and master Selden said, he would rather 
lose any humane book in his study then 
bree 
Sir Thomas Bodlie, a great scholar 
and: prudent statist. 
‘‘iiis parents were rather good thea 
great. What hberal education they 
he shows in his own 
Life, written in Enulish, by himself,which 
is put into Latine by Dr. Hackwell, and 
is in Oxford library. He living in the 
troublesome times of queen Mary, his 
parents took him beyond sea, 
“« At Gcnevah be heard Beroaldus for 
Greek; Cevallerius for Hebrew; in di- 
vinity, Calvin and Beza. 
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