Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            “Queſtion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12677" xml:space="preserve">it was not any ſuch conceit, but becauſe we remembred he
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            “had given a touch in his former Speech, that this Land had Laws of Se-
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            “crecy, touching Strangers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12678" xml:space="preserve">To this he ſaid, “You remember it right; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12679" xml:space="preserve">and
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            “therefore in that, I ſhall ſay to you, I muſt reſerve ſome particulars which
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            “it is not lawful for me to reveal, but there will be enough left to give you
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            “ſatisfaction.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12681" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall underſtand (that which perhaps you will ſcarce think cre-
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            dible) that about Three thouſand years ago or ſomewhat more, the Na-
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            vigation of the VVorld (ſpecially for remote Voyages) was greater then
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            at this day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12682" xml:space="preserve">Do not think with your ſelves, that I know not how much
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            it is increaſed with you within theſe threeſcore years, I know it well; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12683" xml:space="preserve">and
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            yet I ſay, greater then then now. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12684" xml:space="preserve">VVhether it was, that the example of
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            the Ark that ſaved the remnant of Men from the Univerſal Deluge, gave
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            men confidence to adventure upon the VVaters, or what it was, but ſuch
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            is the truth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12685" xml:space="preserve">The Phœniciæns, and ſpecially the Tyrians, had great Fleets;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12686" xml:space="preserve">ſo had the Carthaginians their Colony, which is yet further VVeſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12687" xml:space="preserve">To-
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            ward the Eaſt the Shipping of Egypt and of Paleſtina was likewiſe great; </s>
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            China alſo, and the Great Atlantis (that you call America) which have now
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            but Junks and Canoaes, abounded then in tall Ships. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12689" xml:space="preserve">This Iſland (as
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            appeareth by faithful Regiſters of thoſe times) had then Fifteen hundred
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            ſtrong Ships of great content. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12690" xml:space="preserve">Of all this, there is with you ſparing memory
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            or none, but we have large know ledge thereof.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12691" xml:space="preserve">At that time this Land was known, and frequented by the Ships and
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            Veſſels of all the Nations beforenamed, and (as it cometh to paſs) they
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            had many times Men of other Countreys that were no Sailers, that came
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            with them, as Perſians, Chaldeans, Arabians; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12692" xml:space="preserve">ſo as almoſt all Nations of
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            might and fame reſorted hither, of whom we have ſome Stirps and little
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            Tribes with us at this day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12693" xml:space="preserve">And for our own Ships, they went ſundry
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            Voyages, as well to your Streights, which you call the Pillars of Hercules,
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            as to other parts in the Atlantick and Meditterranean Seas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12694" xml:space="preserve">as to Peguin (which
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            is the ſame with Cambalu) and Quinſay upon the Oriental Seas, as far as to
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            the Borders of the Eaſt Tartary.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12695" xml:space="preserve">At the ſame time, and an Age after or more, the Inhabitants of the
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            Great Atlantis did flouriſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12696" xml:space="preserve">For though the Narration and Deſcription
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            which is made by a great Man with you, of the Deſcendents of Neptune
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            planted there, and of the magnificent Temple, Palace, City, and Hill,
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            and the manifold ſtreams of goodly Navigable Rivers, which (as ſo many
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            Chains) invironed the ſame Site and Temple, and the ſeveral degrees of
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            aſcent, whereby men did climb up to the ſame, as if it had been a Scala
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            Cœli, be all Poetical and Fabulous; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12697" xml:space="preserve">yet ſo much is true. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12698" xml:space="preserve">That the ſaid
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            Countrey of Atlantis, as well that of Peru, then called Coya, as that of
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            Mexico then named Tyrambel; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12699" xml:space="preserve">were mighty and proud Kingdoms in
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            Arms, Shipping, and Riches; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12700" xml:space="preserve">ſo mighty, as at one time (or at leaſt with-
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            in the ſpace of ten years) they both made two great expeditions, they of
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            Tyrambel through the Atlantick to the Meditarranean Sea, and they of Coya
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            through the South-ſea upon this our Iſland. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12701" xml:space="preserve">And for the former of theſe,
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            which was into Europe, the ſame Author amongſt you (as it ſeemeth) had
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            ſome relation from the Egyptian Prieſt whom he citeth, for aſſuredly ſuch
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            a thing there was. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12702" xml:space="preserve">But whether it were the ancient Athenians that had
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            the glory of the repulſe and reſiſtince of thoſe Forces, I can ſay nothing; </s>
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            but certain it is, there never came back either Ship or Man from that Voy-
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            age. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12704" xml:space="preserve">Neither had the other Voyage of thoſe of Coya, upon us, had </s>
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