That the remoter parts of the earth were in this time inhabited is also induceable from the like testimonies; for (omitting the numeration of _Josephus_, and the genealogies of the Sons of _Noah_) that _Italy_ was inhabited, appeareth from the Records of _Livie_, and _Dionysius Halicarnasscus_, the story of _Æneas_, _Evander_ and _Janus_, whom _Annius_ of _Viterbo_, and the Chorographers of _Italy_, do make to be the same with _Noah_. That _Sicily_ was also peopled, is made out from the frequent mention thereof in _Homer_, the Records of _Diodorus_ and others; but especially from a remarkable passage touched by _Aretius_ and _Ranzanus_ Bishop of _Lucerium_, but fully explained by _Thomas Fazelli_ in his accurate History of _Sicily_; that is, from an ancient inscription in a stone at _Panormo_, expressed by him in its proper characters, and by a _Syrian_ thus translated, _Non est alius Deus præter unum Deum, non est alius potens præter eundem Deum, neq; est alius victor præter eundem quem colimus Deum: Hujus turris præfectus est_ Sapha _filius_ Eliphat, _filii_ Esau, _fratris_ Jacob, _filii_ Isaac, _filii_ Abraham: _et turri quidem ipsi nomen est_ Baych, _sed turri huic proximæ nomen est_ Pharath. The antiquity of the inhabitation of _Spain_ is also confirmable, not only from _Berosus_ in the plantation of _Tubal_, and a City continuing yet in his name, but the story of _Gerion_, the travels of _Hercules_ and his pillars: and especially a passage in _Strabo_, which advanceth unto the time of _Ninus_, thus delivered in his fourth book. The _Spaniards_ (saith he) affirm that they have had Laws and Letters above six thousand years. Now the _Spaniards_ or _Iberians_ observing (as _Xenophon_ hath delivered) _Annum quadrimestrem_, four moneths unto a year, this compute will make up 2000 solary years, which is about the space of time from _Strabo_, who lived in the days of _Augustus_, unto the reign of _Ninus_. That _Mauritania_ and the coast of _Africa_ were peopled very soon, is the conjecture of many wise men, and that by the _Phœnicians_, who left their Country upon the invasion of _Canaan_ by the _Israelites_. For beside the conformity of the _Punick_ or _Carthaginian_ language with that of _Phœnicia_, there is a pregnant and very remarkable testimony hereof in _Procopius_, who in his second _de bello Vandalico_, recordeth, that in a town of _Mauritania Tingitana_, there was to be seen upon two white Columns in the _Phœnician_ language these ensuing words; _Nos Maurici sumus qui fugimus a facie Jehoschua filii Nunis prædatoris_. The fortunate Islands or _Canaries_ were not unknown; for so doth _Strabo_ interpret that speech in _Homer_ of _Proteus_ unto _Menelaus_, _Sed te qua terræ postremus terminus extat, Elysium in Campum cœlestia numina ducunt._