Nor here cease Thy search, but with De Quiros[186] to the South Still urge thy way, if yet some continent Stretch to its dusky pole, with nations spread, 580 Forests, and hills, and streams.
So be thy search With ampler views rewarded, till, at length, Lo, the round world is compassed! Then return Back to the bosom of the tranquil Thames, And hail Britannia's victor ship,[187] that now From many a storm restored, winds its slow way Silently up the current, and so finds, Like to a time-worn pilgrim of the world, Rest, in that haven where all tempests cease.

590 [180] The Pharos was not erected by Alexander, but Alexandria is here supposed to be finished.
[181] Cape Bojador.
[182] John Gongalez Zarco was employed by Prince Henry to conduct the enterprise of discovery along the Western coast of Africa.
[183] Porto Santo.
[184] I have called the three islands of Madeiras the Hesperides, who, in ancient mythology, are the three daughters of Atlas; as I consider the orange-trees and mysterious shade, with the rocks discerned through it on a nearer approach, to be the best solution of the fable of the golden fruit, the dragon, and the three daughters of Atlas.
[185] Magellan's ship first circumnavigated the globe, passing through the straits, called by his name, into the South Sea, and proceeding West to the East Indies.

He himself, like our revered Cooke, perished in the enterprise.
[186] De Quiros first discovered the New Hebrides, in the South Sea; afterwards explored by Cooke, who bears testimony to the accuracy of De Quiros.

These islands were supposed part of a great continent stretching to the South pole, called _Terra Australis incognita._ [187] Drake's ship, in which he sailed round the world; she was laid up at Deptford--hence Ben Johnson, in _Every Man in his Humour_, "O Coz, it cannot be altered, go not about it; Drake's old ship at Deptford may sooner circle the world again.".