Yet the _Fortunate_, or _Canary_ Islands were in the first ages after _Noah_, frequented with Vessels, which in later times were altogether neglected, till _Guillaum Betancourt_, a Gentleman of _Picardye_, brought them again to be taken notice of by a fresh Trade. The Fable of the _Hesperian_ Gardens, and the Dragon that kept the Golden Fruit, with constant Vigils, is nothing but an allusion to the Sea, which with Serpentine Embraces, not onely secur’d these scatter’d Isles, but swallow’d up several Adventurers that too hardy made their unhappy approaches for discovery. Another Allegation for the Planting of _America_ by Land, both whose sides are wash’d on the East and West, by the South and Atlantick Ocean, may be thus probably made out: The Atlantick rowls over with almost Fathomless Waters, three thousand Leagues of Ground; the South-Sea not much less, which well may be, being indeed but one continu’d Sea, encompassing, till meeting there, the Universal Ball; whence springs a more likelyhood, that _America_ might be Planted from the Southern parts, from the _Straights_ of _Magellan_, and _Le-Mayr_. [Sidenote: _Relatio de Terra Australe._] [Sidenote: The Description of the unknown South.] _Peter Fernandes de Quir_ relates, That he and a Commander, _Lodowick Paes le Torres_ saw a part of the South Countrey, and in it innumerable Inhabitants, _Whites_, _Blacks_, _Sallows_, with long, black, curl’d, Woolly, and yellow Hair. They know no Walls or Fortresses for Defence, Laws or Kings, but are divided into Tribes: They use indeed Bows, Arrows, Clubs, and a kind of Spears: Their Houses are cover’d with Palm-Tree-Leaves; their Housholdstuff consists onely of a few Earthen Pots, and such Trinkets; yet they have some little skill in Weaving, and though they go naked, pride themselves in Neck-Laces and Bracelets, made of Mother of Pearl: But these for their Complexions and Constitution of Body, Customs, and manners, are rather deriv’d from the _Americans_, than they from them, and therefore we must seek for their Original from the North; from which are but two ways, one from _Ysland_ and _Groenland_, which _Grotius_ endeavors to prove, but contradicted; the other out of _Tartary_, which certainly was the first Nursery, from whence the _Americans_ were Transplanted. [Sidenote: Description of _Tartary_.] _Tartary_ or _Tattary_, so call’d from the River _Tatter_, which runs thorow the Countrey _Mongul_ into the Northern Ocean, covers a great part of the Terrestrial Globe; the lesser _Tartary_ makes out a considerable part of _Europe_; the greater is _Asia_.