When they take the Field, going to War, not any but musters three Horses; which makes their Armies, when drawn out in Campain, shew much bigger than indeed they are: And though many of them are kill’d in the Wars, or slain for Food, yet the _European Tartars_ pay yearly forty thousand Horses to the _Russians_; from whence _Grotius_ thus argues, “If _America_ joyns to _Tartary_, then the Horses which run wild at Grass might easily have found _America_ themselves, seeking to improve their Pasture, and have gone from one Countrey into the other, as it appears, that since the _Spaniards_ transported Horses to _America_, they are dispers’d over the highest Mountains, out of one Province into the other: Or if the _Straights of Anian_ run between both, the _Tartars_ never were Navigators; and suppose they had been, they would not have cross’d without Horses, without which they knew not how to subsist.” To which we only say thus, That although _Tartary_ now, and in former times, abounded in Horse, yet must we grant, that it hath been always so? or that the ancient _Scythians_, who we avouch first planted _America_, had such frequent use of them as the _Tartars_ now. This may be controverted, for that these _Scythians_ planting there in the Non-age of Time, presently after the Flood, the use of Horses was unknown, which the Ancient Poets testifie by their Fiction of _Centaurs_, who when first seen, the Horse and Rider were taken for one Creature. The like mistake the _Mexicans_ had, when they saw the mounted _Spaniards_, a thousand running away from one Cavalier. As to their coming thither of themselves, it may easily be confuted: Who knows not, that there is no Countrey a continu’d Pasture, but luxurious Vales separated with inaccessible Mountains, Lakes, and vast Wildernesses. But _David Ingram_ relates, “That he saw some Horses in the Northern _America_, which the _Mexicans_, and other Conquests of the _Spaniards_ never heard of:” Whereupon we may conclude, and we suppose without all peradventure, That the _Americans_ have absolutely their Original from _Tartary_, which bordering _Armenia_, where _Noah_’s Ark first rested, hath a convenient way, though beyond the _Artick Circle_, through a temperate Climate betwixt Heat and Cold, to _Cathay_, in the same Parallel with the neighboring _America_. [Illustration] CHAP. III. _First Discoverers of_ America. Christopher Colonus _his Expedition_. [Sidenote: _Pet Bizari Res Genoan._ lib. 16.] [Sidenote: _Lib. 11. Hist. Georg._] [Sidenote: _Christoph. Colonus_’s Birth.]