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The Discovery

tion then our World (as Keplar thinkes) whether they are the seed of Adam, whether they are there in a blessed estate, or else what meanes there may be for their salvation, with many other such uncertaine enquiries, which I shall willingly omit, leaving it to their examination, who have more lesiure and learning for the search of such particulars.

Being for mine own part content only to set downe such notes belonging unto these which I have observed in other Writers. Cum tota illa regio nobis ignota sit, remanent inhabitatores illi ignoti penitas,[1] (saith Cusanus) since we know not the regions of that place, wee must be altogether ignorant of the inhabitants. There hath not yet beene any such discovery concerning these, upon which wee may build a certainty, or good probability; well may wee guesse at them, and

  1. De. Doct. ign. l. 2. c. 12.
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