AMERICA.



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country which the Carthaginians, according to Diodo-
rus, discovered in the Atlantic Ocean. The most rea-



sonable mode, therefor
consanguinity, is to c
period, the Carthaginiai
Cadiz, a town which )
Andalusia, a province
fortuitously in Ireland,
  The Welsh also fon



elol
:onC
us, z
vas
in
wh
dly



f accounting for this ancient
dude that, at some remote
after a fexv days' sailing from
built by the Phcenicians in
the south of Spain, arrived
ere they made settlements,
imagine, that their country



contributed, in 1170, to people the new world, by t
adventures of Madoc, son of Owen Guyneyd, who th
say, on the death of his father, sailed there, and co
nized a part of the country. All that is advanced
proof of this discovery, is a quotation from one of t
British poets, who proves no more, than that hle h
distinguished himself both by sea and land. TI
compliment was immediately perverted by the Wel
Bards. They pretend that he made two voyages; tl
sailing west, he left Ireland so far to the north, that
came to a land unknown, where he saw many stran
things; that on'returning home, and making report
the fruitfulness of the newlv discovered country, he p:
vailed on numbers of the W"elsh of each sex to accol



he



ey
lo-
in
he



ad
htis
Ish
iat
he
ge
of
re-
lm-



pany him on a second voyage, from which he never
returned. Without commenting on these assertions, for
they do not wear the visage of truth, we need only
enquire- who the Welsh Bards were. It is clearly stated
by Strabo and Ammmian what they were, anciently, in
their day; but Lucan has more briefly, and distinctly
enough for the present purpose, informed us in the
following verses:



Nos quosque,- qui fortes animas, belloque peremptas,
Laudibus in longum. vates demittis aevum,
Plurima securi fudistus carmii Bardi.

The brave who fell in war, ye poets, praise
In strains that shall descend to distant times,
And spread their fame, ye Bards, ia many songs.
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