_Hanno_’s Voyage was four hundred years before the Birth of our Savior; therefore if none have been further than _Hanno_, until the time the _Portuguese_ sail’d beyond _Cape de Bona Esperanza_, how could _America_ be discover’d by Sea? How did they steer from the _Salt-Islands_, or _St. Thomas_, out of sight of Land, through the Main Ocean, to an unknown World? _Hanno_ himself, who was the stoutest of all Ancient Navigators, not only crept along the _African_ Coast, which made him spend so much time; but not daring to cross over those wide spreading Bays he found, left not his hold of the Shore, and measur’d and search’d every winding Inlet and Creek: And if he found a New World, why was it not known? The more, because his Ambition carry’d him on to get a Name and Reputation by such Naval Discoveries. And how true the Relation of this Expedition is, _Pliny_ tells us, saying, The Journal-Books were then to be seen which _Hanno_ writ in that his _African_ Expedition: Though many of the _Greeks_, and also of our Moderns, following _Hanno_, have found several things contrary to his Observations, wherein he makes mention of several Cities built by him, which none ever since heard of, or any have seen, neither is there the least Marks of their Ruines to be found. This large Relation serves for nothing else, but to shew that they seek in vain herein to give the Honor of the Discovery of _America_ to the Ancients; And as little do those Testimonies signifie that are taken out of _Diodorus Siculus_, _Pliny_, _Pomponius Mela_, and _Ælian_. It will be worth our time to hear every one of them particularly. [Sidenote: _Lib. 6. cap. 7._] [Sidenote: Second Testimony, that the _Americans_ are deriv’d from the _Phenicians_.] First, _Diodorus_ saith, “Beyond _Lybia_, in the Ocean, lies a very great Island, several days sailing in Circumference, having a very fruitful Soil, and pleasant Meadows, distinguish’d by Hills, and moistned by Navigable Rivers, unknown in Ancient Times, because it seems to be separated from the other World, and was thus found: The _Phenicians_ sailing along the _Lybian_ Coast, were several days and nights toss’d with perpetual Tempests, and at last driven to the foremention’d Island, where Anchoring, and observing the pleasant Scituation thereof, made it known to their Magistrates.” [Sidenote: _Is contradicted._] But how comes this nameless Island to be _America_? What Man would take that for an Island, which far exceeds the main Continent of _Asia_? And have the _Phenicians_ ascrib’d the finding of this New World to any? Whence then proceeds such great silence amongst all the Ancient Writers of a whole World, who otherwise us’d to give Denominations to the least remote Village, or Mountain, or River? [Sidenote: _Lib. 5. cap. 1._ Description of _Atlas_.]