cautiously admitted as additional testimony it appears i say and i make the assertion deliberately without fear of contradiction that this globe really was created and that it is composed of land and water it further appears that it is curiously divided and out into and islands among which i boldly declare the renowned island of new will be found by any one who seeks for it in its proper place new york chap iii how far that famous was and how he committed an in not having four sons with the great trouble of philosophers caused thereby and the discovery of america who is the first man we read of three sons ham and authors it is true are not wanting who affirm that the had a number of other children thus makes him father of the gigantic gives him a son called or who was the first of cakes and others have mentioned a son named from whom descended the or or in other words die dutch nation i regret exceedingly that the nature of my plan will not permit me to gratify the curiosity of my readers by the history of the great indeed such an undertaking would be attended with more trouble than many people would imagine for the good � id seems to have been a great traveller in his day and to have passed under a different name in every country that he visited the for instance give us his story merely his name into � a trivial alteration which to an historian skilled in will appear wholly unimportant it appears likewise that he had exchanged his and among the for the gorgeous of and appears as a monarch in their annals the him under the name of the indians as the greek and roman writers con found him with and the with and but the chinese who rank history of among the most extensive and inasmuch as they have known the world much longer than any one else declare that was no other than and what gives this assertion some air of is that it is a fact admitted by the most enlightened that travelled into china at the time of the building of the tower of probably to improve himself in the study of languages and the learned dr gives us the additional information that the ark rested on a mountain on the of china from this mass of rational conjectures and sage many satisfactory might be drawn but i shall content myself with the simple fact stated in the bible that three sons ham and it is astonishing on what remote and obscure the great affairs of this world depend and how events the most distant and to the common observer are inevitably consequent the one to the other it remains to the philosopher to discover these mysterious and is the triumph of his skill to detect and drag forth some latent chain of which at first sight appears a to the inexperienced observer thus many of my readers will doubtless wonder what the family of can possibly have with this history � and many will stare when informed that the whole history of this quarter of the world has taken its character and course from the simple circumstance of the s having but three sons � but to explain we are told by sundry very becoming sole heir and proprietor of the earth in fee simple after the like a good father out his estate among his children to he gave asia to ham africa and to europe now it is a thousand times to be lamented that he had but three sons for had there been a fourth he would doubtless have new york inherited america which of course would have been dragged forth from its obscurity on the occasion and thus many a hard working historian and philosopher would hare been spared a prodigious mass of weary conjecture respecting the first discovery and population of this country however having provided for his three sons looked in all probability upon our country as mere wild unsettled land and said nothing about it and to this of the may we the misfortune that america did not come into the world as early as the other quarters of the globe it is true some writers have him from this towards posterity and asserted tbat he really did discover america thus it was the opinion of mark a french writer possessed of that of thought and of reflection so peculiar to his nation that the immediate descendants of peopled this quarter of the globe and that the old himself who still retained a passion for the life the the pious and enlightened father a french remarkable for his aversion to the marvellous common to all great travellers is of the same opinion nay he goes still further and upon the manner in which the discovery was effected which was by sea and under the immediate direction of the great i have already observed the good father in a tone of becoming indignation that it is an arbitrary supposition that the of were not able to penetrate into the new world or that they never thought of it in effect i can see no reason that can justify such a notion who can seriously believe that and his immediate descendants knew less than we do and that the and pilot of the greatest ship that ever was a ship which was formed to an unbounded ocean and had so many and to guard against should be hi tory of of or should not hare communicated to his descendants the art of sailing on the ocean therefore they did sail on the ocean � therefore they sailed to america � therefore america was discovered by now all this exquisite chain of reasoning which is so strikingly characteristic of the good father being addressed to the faith rather than to the understanding is opposed by 