Hitherto we have discover’d the several Opinions concerning the Original of the _Americans_, or first Plantation of _America_, from all which, having receiv’d no clear or demonstrative satisfaction, we must open our way to a further scrutiny: But first, we must needs confess, that contradiction is not difficult; but it is something of Work, when we have beaten down a well-fortifi’d Opinion, to set up somewhat in stead thereof, to stand a permanent and undeniable truth, which will be the harder, in regard the Inhabitants of this new World have no old Chronologies concerning their Antiquities, and first settling there; yet if we cannot go so far absolutely to assert, yet some probabilities, grounded (as we suppose) upon better reasons, may give more satisfaction; for none will deny, but that the Generations of Mankind being strangely multiply’d after the Flood, they then living five times our Ages, and Wars not beginning till the known part of the Earth was over-stock’d, justling for Territories, and some thrust quite out, at last found _America_; which spreading it self to a vast extent, and now found almost every where well inhabited, may be guess’d, that it was not onely Planted from the first, but several times replenish’d since by various Nations; Why may not several Planters, and at several times make room for their Colonies, incroaching one upon another, either by force or compact; as the _French_ themselves upon the _Gauls_, the _Normans_ upon them, the _Goths_ among the _Spaniards_, and the _Saxons_ among the _Brittains_, and the _Normans_ again upon them? Several people may easily Sail over thither, the _Azores_ or the _Canary_ Isles lye so, that they are ready (as if design’d) for Transportation to _America_; from whence _Acosta_ made a Voyage in fifteen days. Also _Pliny_ gives us an account, that these Islands lay uninhabited in his time; yet is it well known, that after _Pliny_’s time, Ruins of Buildings were found there, signifying, they had been formerly Planted; and why might not those ancient Inhabitants Sail thence to the neighboring _America_? [Sidenote: _Marian. de Reb. Hisp._ l. 1. c. 18.]