3d. _The East-Wind, and its proof of the truth of History._ The reader will remember the detailed account given of this constant current of air, in the sixth chapter of this book. [Vol. i., Book ii., ch. vi., § 2.] We may, however, be permitted to repeat, that it blows perpetually from East _to_ West, consequently over and from the Fortunate Isles _directly towards America_,--those Islands being within the degrees over which this orient gale has, and will for ever pass. The direct opposite land to these Islands, on the American Continent, is Florida, it being, like the Isles, within the thirty degrees North latitude. Now any vessel or Galley to set sail before the wind from Teneriffe (the Isle upon which the Tyrians were), and place the rudder or helm fore and aft (_i. e._ not obliquely, but central), then the East-Wind would drive that vessel _directly on to Florida_. This fact is not more certain (as the map will prove) than the historical tradition of the Mexican Aborigines is extraordinary in reference to this fact, and to the original Theory forming the basis of this volume. We stated in the Analogies, and it is now repeated with peculiar force and interest, that the Spanish Historian, Sahagan, who lived on friendly terms with the Aborigines for sixty years, and wrote only fifteen years after the Cortezian Conquest (1520), relates, that on the authority of Montezuma the Emperor, and his People, and the tradition from the remotest times,--handed down from sire to son,--and also from their historical paintings,--that their ancestors, as a colony, _first touched at Florida_!--that they crossed or coasted the Gulf of Mexico and Yucatan, and then finally landed and settled _somewhere in the Bay of Honduras_! Now the _Copan_ river is a branch of the Montagua, which empties itself into the Bay of Honduras!