'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎394] (417/448)

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was South: if South then not the Weft-Indiesfor it may be prefumed that feeing the ufe
of the Compafs was then unknown, his way was not without ken of Land, but rather
crept near the fhore: for had he been in the mid Ocean he had been loft, and in humane
reafon irrecoverable. Virgil in the 6. lib* foretelling the greatnefs of Cafars Domini
on has this allufion.
Ultra Garamantas & Indos # ■— Stretching his great Command
Jacet extra Sydera Tellus, Gttrttwdnts tttid Inditly lyes d Ldnd
Extra Anni Solifque Vias; ubi coelifer Atlas Beyond both Tear and Sun. Atlas the Skje
Axera humero torque t 3 Stellis ardentibus aptum. That hears, the Star fraught Pole doth wheel hereby.
About the right fenfe whereof is no fmall variance*, for Servm thinks .the Poet only
means the which Laudinm diilikes, not allowing any part of zAZthiopia to ex
ceed the Tropiquesto make which good he fuppofes that the word Extra fignifies pne
Extra •, and by like evafion Donatm underftands Solem pro Die and Annum pro Nofte, no
Grammatical procedure. But Lod* de la Cerda with better confideration interprets
gils meaning, that Auguftus Ctfa ftiould extend his Scepter beyond Atlas, into the more
meridional parts of Libya or South Afiic, into Lands without the Zodiac, and fo,
thewords ^M Sydera'MQ to have Zodiac* adjoyned: but granting that, it makes no
thing for the difcovery of America. After this, Seneca the Philofopher in his Medaa gives
us this predidion.
— Venient Annis •—-— —— The Time Jhail one day be
Secuhferis, quibus Oceanus Guided by Providence^ when men jhall fee
Vincula rerutn laxet, & ingeas The liquid Ocean to enlarge her bounds
Pateat Tellus, Typhifque Novas And pay the Earth a Tribute of more grounds
Detegat Orbes. Nec fit Terris In ample meafure. For the Seag-ods then
Ultima Thule - - Will Jhew New Worlds and Rarities to Men.
Tea (by his leave who all things doth command)
See Thule far lefs North than other Lands,
Dim lights to fhew th^ way into the Weftern World: fo that upon the whole it may be
granted, the difcovery of thatvaft Continent was relerved for a fucceeding generation.
The fir ft wee meet with is MadocSon of Prince Owen Gwynedd, who for thirty years ruled
Wales after his Father Gryffith ap Conan had at Saint Davids done homage to William the
Conquerour for Lands he held on the other fide Severn. He was in a dired line defcended
from Roderic the Great, a Prince famoufed for his fuccefs againft the invading German,
efpecially at Bert hen, Bangelu-, Monegid and Anglejey about the year 846. fuch time as
Burchred ruled over the Mercians and Ethelwolfe the W. Saxons. The Annals of thofe
times acquaint us. That Owen was no fooner dead but that the cuftom of Gavel-kind (which
fome think has ruined moft families in Wales') occafioned great divifion amongft his Sons,
of which Jorwerth or Edward firnamed Dwryndwn by reafon of his broken nofe was eldeft,
but withftood by Howel^nd David the younger Sons by reafon of that and other his imper!
fedions, Howel alfo was objeded againft for that his Mother was of Ireland, 'twixt which
Countries War was proclaimed: fo David was beft approved of though youngeft, both
in reaped of his corndy perfonage^and ingenuity, but principally for that he had gained
the artedion of the Lady Emma Plantaginet Sifter to King H. 2. Howbeit this indired
pradice was foon after queftioned hy fdewellin ap Jorwerth who by the affiftance of Howel
ap Meredith and Conan ap Owen his p£ <| ir Kinfman gave battel to David, and having the
better or the day pofleft himfelf of that f rincipality Anno 1195. an d preferved it. Thele
inteftin broyles were no way pleafingto Madoc who by that difcord forefaw their ruine
(or what deftroyes a Nation looner than divifion ?) and the Normans Ipeedy conqueft.
Theretore to avoid that ftorm and provide for himfelf, he refolves upon a Sea-adventure
hoping to find out fome place abroad where he might plant fecurely and not be liable to
invafion. So Tradition \ and it is not unlike that fo generous a Prince was not unacquainted
with thole Authors lately cited-, but to deviate a little, more certain it is the Song penned
by Ambroje Teleyjfenz Prophetic Bardh was then accomplifhed, writ An, Dom. 490. fuch
ime as Aurelim Ambrofim brother to Vther pen-Dragon repaired hither from Armorica to
commana in chief againft the Saxon; in which, the Bardh foretels that at fuch time as
edipfed ^ ^ themfelves and to Idolatry, the Britttjh Splendor fliould be