Moone her Period of the Zodiak for a yeere, which is our vsual moneth,
depending à Luminari minori.

So that in these our dayes there can no other mayne or Islande be found or
iudged to bee parcell of this Atlantis, then those Westerne Islands, which
beare now the name of America: counteruailing thereby the name of Atlantis,
in the knowledge of our age.[28]

[Sidenote: A minore ad maius.] Then, if when no part of the sayd Atlantis,
was oppressed by water, and earthquake, the coast round about the same were
nauigable: a farre greater hope now remaineth of the same by the Northwest,
seeing the most part of it was (since that time) swallowed vp with water,
which could not vtterly take away the olde deeps 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 now doubt of our Northwest passage and
nauigation from England to India? &c. seeing that Atlantis now called
America, was euer knowen to be an Island, and in those dayes nauigable
round about, which by accesse of more water could not be diminished.

Also Aristotle in his booke De Mundo, and the learned Germaine Simon
Gryneus[29] in his annotations vpon the same, saith that the whole earth
(meaning thereby, as manifestly doth appeare, Asia, Africk and Europe,
being all the countreys then knowen) is but one Island, compassed about
with the reach of the sea Atlantine: which likewise prooueth America to be
an Island, and in no part adioyning to Asia, or the rest.

[Sidenote: Strabo lib. 15] Also many ancient writers, as Strabo and others,
called both the Ocean Sea, (which lieth East of India) Atlanticum pelagus,
and that sea also on the West coasts of Spaine and Africk, Mare Atlanticum:
the distance betweene the two coasts is almost halfe the compasse of the