Mont. _What Forms did these new Wonders represent?_ Guy. _More strange than what your Wonder can invent. The Object I could first distinctly view, Was tall straight Trees, which on the Waters flew; Wings on their sides, in stead of Leaves did grow, Which gather’d all the Breath the Winds could blow:_ _And at their Roots grew floating Palaces, Whose out-blow’n Bellies cut the yielding Seas._ Mont. _What Divine Monsters, O ye Gods, were these, That float in Air, and fly upon the Seas!_ _Came they alive or dead upon the Shore?_ Guy. _Alas, they liv’d too sure, I heard them roar._ _All turn’d their sides, and to each other spoke, I saw their Words break out in Fire and Smoke._ _Sure, ’tis their Voice that Thunders from on high, Or these, the younger Brothers of the Skie._ _Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty Flight, No Mortal Courage can support the Fright._ [Sidenote: _Spaniards_ carry Oxen, and Sheep to the _American_ Isles.] But the resolving these Doubts, starts a harder Question, _viz._ Grant that the _Americans_ were by Tempest driven thither, How then came the Beasts thither? It is certain, that those which are beneficial for humane use, as Dogs for to Hunt, great Cattel, Sheep, for Food, and other Necessaries, might easily be carry’d thither, for so the _Spaniards_ brought Cows, Horses, Swine, and other Cattel; and also Poultery from _Spain_, to the new-discover’d Isles, _Cuba_, _Hispaniola_, _Jamaica_, _Margaretta_, and _La Dominica_, when at their arrival, formerly no four-footed Beasts were found there, whose fertile Soyl hath so multiply’d their increase, that the Doggs running Wilde, and breeding as fast, do great hurt to the Grazing Herds, which they onely shoot for their Skins, leaving their Flesh, the best of Meats, onely to Manure the Ground on which they lie. The Transporting of tame and profitable Cattel might easily be allow’d of, but who would load their Ships with Lions, Tygers, Bears, Wolves, Foxes, and other Serpents and Voracious Beasts? it is certain that some may be tam’d before they were Ship’d. [Sidenote: How wild Beasts came in _America_, and the Isles.] [Sidenote: In _vita Heliogabali_.] [Sidenote: Lib. 2. cap. 17.] [Sidenote: Strange Hunting.] [Sidenote: Strange accident of two Leopards.] [Sidenote: _Adv. Jovin._ l. 2.]