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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
sail deluge, gave confidence to adventure, or what it was,
but such is the truth. The Phoenicians and Tyrians had
great fleets, so had the Carthaginians, their colony. To
ward the East the shipping of ^Egypt and Palestina was
likewise, great. China also and America abounded in tall
ships This island had fifteen hundred of great content.
At that time this land was known and frequented by ships
and vessels of all the nations before named, and they had
many times men of other countries that were no saylers,
that came with them as Persians, Chaldeans, Egyptians,
and Grecians, so as almost all nations resorted hither, of
whom we have some stirps with us at this day. Our own
ships went sundry voyages.
" At the same time, the inhabitants of the Holy Land did
flourish. For though the narration and discription made
by a great man with you, that the descendants of Neptune
planted there, and of the magnificent temple, palace, city,
and hill (see my Rosie Crucian Infallible Axiomata\ and the
manifold navigable rivers (which as so many
chains en-
vironed the site and temple), and the severall degrees of
ascent whereby men did climb up to the same as if it had
been a Scala Cceli, be all poeticall and fabulous, yet so
much is true that the said country of Judea, as well as Peru,
then called Coya Mexico, then named Tyrambel were
mighty, proud kingdomes in arms, shipping, and riches.
At one time both made two great expeditions, they of
Tyrambel through Judea to the Mediterrane sea, and they
of Coya through the South Sea upon this our island. For
the former of these, which was into Europe, the same author
amongst you had some relations from his Beata (see the
" Harmony of the World," lib. i., the Preface). Assuredly
such a thing there was, but whether the ancient Athenians