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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01749	A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight	Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583.; Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.	1576 (1576)	STC 11881; ESTC S105732	27,387	91

driuen vpon the coastes of Germanie came not thither by the Southeast Southwest nor from any part of Afrik or America Capitulo 6. To prooue that the Indians aforenamed came not by the Northeast and that there is no thorow passage Nauigable that way Capitulo 7. To prooue that these Indians came by the Northwest which induceth a certaintie of this passage by experience Capitulo 8. What seuerall reasons were alledged before the Queenes Maiestie certaine Lordes of her Highnes priuie Counsell by a Gentleman of great trauaile and experience to prooue this passage by the Northeast with my seuerall answeres then alledged to the same Capitulo 9. How that this passage by the Northwest is more commodious for our traffike then the other by the Northeast if there were any such Capitulo 10. What commodities would ensue this passage being once discouered FINIS A GENERAL MAP MADE ONELYE FOR THE PARTICVLER DECLARATION OF THIS DISCOVERY To proue a passage by authoritie to be on the Northside of AMERICA to goe to CATAIA China and the East India c. WHen I gaue my self to the studie of Geographie after I had perused diligently scanned the descriptions of Europe Asia and Afrike and conferred them with the Mappes and Globes both Antique Moderne I came in time to the fourth part of the worlde cōmonly called AMERICA which by al descriptiōs I founde to be an Ilande enuironed round about with the Sea hauing on the south-side of it the frete or strayte of Magellan on the West side Mare de sur which Sea runneth towardes the North separating it from the East parts of Asia where the dominions of the Cataians are On the East part our Weste Ocean and on the North-side the sea that seuereth it frō Grondland thorow which Northern seas the passage lyeth which I take now in hande to discouer Plato in Timeo and in the Dialogue called Critias discourseth of an incomparable great Ilande thē called Atlantis being greater then all Affrik and Asia whiche laye Westward from the Straits of Gibraltar Nauigable round aboute affirming also that the Princes of Atlantis did aswel enioye the gouernaunce of all Affrik and the most part of Europe as of Atlantis it selfe Also to prooue Platoes opinion of this Ilande and the inhabyting of it in aūcient tyme by them of Europe to be of the more credit Marineus Siculus in his Chronicle of Spayne reporteth that there hath ben foūd by the Spaniardes in the Golde Mynes of America certeine peeces of Money ingraued with the Image of Augustus Caesar which peeces were sent vnto the Pope for a testimonie of the matter by Iohn Rufus Archebishop of Cosentinum Moreouer this was not onely thought of Plato but by Marsilius Ficinus an excellēt Florentine Philosopher Crantor the Graecian Proclus also Philo the famous Ievve as appeareth in his booke De Mundo in the Cōmentaries vpon Plato to be ouerflowen and swallowed vp with water by reason of a mightie Earthquake and streamyng downe of the heauenly Fludgates The like whereof happened vnto some part of Italie whē by the forciblenes of the Sea called Superum it cut of Cicilia from the Continent of Calabria as appeareth in Iustine in the beginning of his fourth boke Also there chaunced the like in Zelande a part of Flaunders And also the cities of Pyrrha and Antissa aboute Meotis Palus with the Citie Burys in the Corynthian bosome cōmonly called Sinus Corynthiacus haue bene swallowed vp with the sea and are not at this day to be discerned By which accident America grew to be vnknowen of long time vnto vs of the later ages and was lately discouered again by Americus Vespucius in the yere of our Lord 1497. which some say to haue bene first discouered by Christopherus Columbus a Genuest Anno. 1492. The same calamity hapned vnto this Isle of Atlantis 600. od yeres before Plato his time which some of the people of the southeast parts of the world accompted as 9000. yeres for the manner then was to recone the moone her Period of the Zodiak for a yere which is our vsuall moneth depending a Luminari minore So that in these our dayes there can no other mayne or Ilande bee founde or iudged to be parcell of this Atlantis then those Westerne Ilandes which beare now the name of AMERICA counteruailing thereby the name of Atlantis in the knowledge of our age Then if when no part of the said Atlantis was oppressed by water earthquake the coastes rounde about the same were nauigable a far greater hope now remaineth of the same by the Northwest seeing the most parte of it was since that time swalowed vp with water which coulde not vtterly take away the olde deepes and chanels but rather be an occasion of the inlarging of the olde and also an inforcing of a great many new why then should we nowe doubte of our Northwest passage nauigation from Englande to India c. seeing that Atlātis now called AMERICA was euer knowen to be an Ilande and in those days nauigable round about which by accesse of more water coulde not be diminished Also Aristotle in his boke De Mundo and the learned Germane Simon Gryneus in his annotations vpon the same saith that the whole earth meaning thereby as manifestly doth appeare Asia Afrik and Europe being al the countreis then knowen to be but on Ilande cōpassed about with the reach of the Sea Atlantine which likewise approueth AMERICA to be an Iande and in no parte adioyning to Asia or the rest Also many Auncient writers as Strabo others called both the Ocean sea which lieth East of India Atlanticū pelagus and that Sea also on the west coasts of Spayne Afrik Mare Atlanticum the distance betweene which two coastes is almost halfe the compasse of the earth So that it is incredible as by Plato appeareth manifestly that the East Indian sea had the name Atlanticum pelagus of the Mountaine Atlas in Afrik or yet the Sea adioining to Afrik had name Oceanus Atlanticus of the same mountaine but that those Seas and the mountaine Atlas were so called of this great Ilande Atlantis and that the one the other had their names for a memoriall of the mightie prince Atlas sometime King therof who was Iaphet youngest sonne to Noah in whose time the whole earth was diuided betwene the three bretherne Sem. Cam and Iaphet Wherefore I am of opinion that America by the Northwest wil be founde fauorable to this our enterprise and am the rather imboldened to beleeue the same for that I finde it not onely confirmed by Plato Aristotle and other auncient Philosophers but also by al the best moderne Geographers as Gemma Frisius Muristerus Appianus Hunterus Costaldus Guyzardinꝰ Michael Tramesinus Franciscus Demongenitus Barnardus Puteanus Andreas Vanasor Tramontanus Petrus Martyr and also Hortelius who doth coaste out in his generall Mappe set out Anno 1569. al the coūtreys and capes on