Although from the foremention’d places, and after the same manner, _America_ might be furnish’d with Inhabitants; so it also gives us a more certain assurance, that the Planting of _America_ was not onely soon after the Flood, but that they came also thither by Land: And how strangely would it be against the Majesty and Wisdom of Divine Providence, to leave half the Universal Globe, a World fully supply’d with all sorts of Creatures, fit for Food and Service, Plants, Herbs, and the richest Minerals, like a House new built, and well furnish’d, without a Master or any Inhabitant, _viz._ Man, who being of Celestial Extract, should be able to acknowledge and glorifie the Creator, by admiring the Creature in his great Works: Besides, the confus’d Notions and Fables of Giants, Perpetrators of all manner of Crimes, and wallowing in all kind of sensual Debaucheries, are always remembred among the Antiquities of the _Americans_, and that they had some slender hints of antient Truth, not onely of the Giants before the Flood, but of those that soon after the rank fatness of the Earth, produc’d and fed to that pitch of Arrogance, that the covenanting Brethren defi’d God, fortifying themselves to fight him by the advantage of that their long congested Pile, _Babel_, which in a short time was transverted by the _Heathen_ Poets into their _Gigantomachia_, heaping Hills on Hills, like the _American_ Traditions: From which we may conjecture, that they came thither in the time of _Noah_; for why may not any believe, when _Noah_ liv’d three hundred years after he Landed on Mount _Ararat_, that he took care to People the World? And who will make him ignorant of this New World, who living five hundred years before, might not improbably by his own industry and the help of the former long-liv’d _Patriarchs_, been well able to make a general Survey of the Old; and he could better furnish _America_, it being nearer Mount _Ararat_, than supply _Italy_, _Spain_, _Germany_, or any Northern Territories in _Europe_, so that _America_ might be known to the first people after the Flood, nay, inhabited by them, though since that, the knowledge was lost. _Pliny_ complaining of the Supine negligence, and stupendious sloth which reign’d then and long before as he had observ’d, among all people, and in every place, who were so far from making inquiry after discoveries of Lands for new Plantations, that they lost the old, when they had begun to settle, though under the greatest serenity of Peace; The Sea by that means lying open beyond what any juncture of former times could be proud of. [Sidenote: _Canary Islands_, by whom discover’d.] [Sidenote: _Hesperian_ Gardens, what they signifie.]