_Tercera_ lying half way between _Spain_ and _America_, was frequented by Navigators before the Birth of our Savior; and it seems as easie to Sail from thence to _America_, as from the Main Land of _Spain_ thither: Add this, that necessity forc’d the _Spaniards_ to look about them from other Countreys, for since they lost their Victorious Champion _Baucius Gapetus_, they were every where beaten, being tired out by the _Phenician_ Forces, and that oppression over, suffer’d as much under the _Roman_ Yoke: Wherefore it seems not strange, if a considerable number remov’d from thence, that they might live some where else in quiet; for which purpose they wanted no conveniencies to Rig and set forth stout and sufficient Vessels, able to live in those Seas, having had long experience from the _Phenician_ Voyagers, whose Fleets Sail’d daily to and again in several Expeditions, from _Cadiz_ and _Gibraltar_ towards these Western Countreys: Nay, _Hanno_ himself their first Navigator that way, who gives an account of the _Gorgons_, or the Isles of _Cape Verd_, a good part of the way to _America_. [Sidenote: _English_ famous Sea-men.] [Sidenote: _Barat-anac_, or, _Tinland_, the _Phenician_ name, and _Brittania_ the _Greek_ name of _Brittain_.] And though _Brittain_, _Ireland_, and the _Brittish Orcades_ lay further from _America_, yet something may be said particularly to prove, That many Ages since, Expeditions had been made from thence to the New World; and that the Inhabitants of these our Isles, in former Ages, were peculiarly famous for their skill in Navigation; insomuch, that the _Cretans_ and _Phenicians_ emulous of their skill, and jealous of their danger, made several Attacques and Invasions upon these Isles, which is the more probable, many remarks of the _Phenician_ and _Greek_ Language, remaining in the denominations of the Countrey: Of which, take first this account: [Sidenote: Old Voyage of _Madok_ to _America_; for which see _Vet. Hist. Brit._] _Anno 1170._ When _Owen Guyneth_, Prince of _Wales_, having Raign’d long and happily in his setled Dominions, dying, left several Sons, who quarrelling, their elder Brother, as not contented with their shares of the Principality, nor to be under him, having gotten no mean Interests and Claims to the whole by their struglings, so weakned one another, that they open’d a way to the loosing of all. [Sidenote: _David Powel in Historia Cambriæ._]