ancient time by them of Europe, to be of the more credite; Marinæus
Siculus[22] in his Chronicle of Spaine, reporteth that there haue bene
found by the Spaniards in the gold Mines of America, certaine pieces of
Money ingraued with the Image of Augustus Cæsar: which pieces were sent to
the Pope for a testimonie of the matter, by Iohn Rufus Archbishop of
Consentinum.

[Sidenote: Prodns pag. 24.] Moreouer, this was not only thought of Plato,
but by Marsilius Ficinus,[23] an excellent Florentine Philosopher, Crantor
the Græcian,[24] and Proclus,[25] and Philo[26] the famous Iew (as
appeareth in his booke De Mundo, and in the Commentaries vpon Plato,) to be
ouerflowen and swallowed vp with water, by reason of a mightie earthquake,
and streaming downe of the heauenly Fludgates. [Sidenote: Iustine Lib. 4.]
The like whereof happened vnto some part of Italy, when by the forciblenes
of the Sea, called Superum, it cut off Sicilia from the Continent of
Calabria, as appeareth in Iustine, in the beginning of his fourth booke.
Also there chanced the like in Zeland a part of Flanders.

[Sidenote: Plinie.] And also the Cities of Pyrrha and Antissa, about Meotis
palus: and also the Citie Burys, in the Corynthian bosome, commonly called
Sinus Corinthiacus, haue bene swallowed vp with the Sea, and are not at
this day to be discerned: By which accident America grew to be ['be be' in
original--KTH] vnknowen of long time, vnto vs of the later ages, and was
lately discouered againe by Americus Vespucius,[27] in the yeere of our
Lord 1497. which some say to haue bene first discouered by Christophorus
Columbus a Genuois, Anno 1492.

The same calamitie happened vnto this Isle of Atlantis 600. and odde yeres
before Plato his time, which some of the people of the Southeast parts of
the world accompted as 9000. yeeres: for the maner then was to reckon the