The first part of my answer is manifestly allowed by Homer, whom that excellent geographer, Strabo, followeth, yielding him in this faculty the prize.

The author of that book likewise _On the Universe_ to Alexander, attributed unto Aristotle, is of the same opinion that Homer and Strabo be of, in two or three places.

Dionysius, in his _Periegesis_, hath this verse, "So doeth the ocean sea run round about the world:" speaking only of Europe, Africa, and Asia, as then Asia was travelled and known.

With these doctors may you join Pomponius Mela, Pliny, Pius, in his description of Asia.

All the which writers do no less confirm the whole eastern side of Asia to be compassed about with the sea; then Plato doth affirm in is _Timaeus_, under the name Atlantis, the West Indies to be an island, as in a special discourse thereof R.Eden writeth, agreeable unto the sentence of Proclus, Marsilius Ficinus, and others.