Farther observations on the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170 [electronic resource] : containing the account given by General Bowles, the Creek or Cherokee Indian, lately in London, and by several others, of a Welsh

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by  Williams, John, 1727-1798

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FARTHER OBSERVATIONS,
ON THE
Difcovery of America,
MADOG
By Prince ab Owen Gwynedd,
ABOUT THE YEAR, II70.
Containing the account given by General Bowies,
the Creek or Cherokee Indian, lateljin Lon-
don and by fcveral others, of a Welsh Tribe
or Tribes of Indians, now living in the Well-
em
parts of Mcrth America.
By JOHN WILLIAMS, L. L. D.
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PREFACE.
A
FORMER
Publication on this Subjea ob-
tained a confiderable degree ofattention, and was
favorably received. What is here added, in my
opinion, will demonftrate that on this day there
exifts a Tribe or Tribes ofIndians in North Ame-
rica, who fpeak the Welfh Language, and alfo.that
they are defccnded from Prince Madog's Com-
pany who failed Weft-ward about the Year 1170.
It is rather fingular that a Tradition fo ancient
and fo general, Ihould fo long remain a matter
of doubt, when its Truth or Falfhood might have
been determined Centuries ago.
Ifiive, fix, or more Perfons, properly qualified
were employed to make the Enquiry, they would
be able within the compafs of a few Years, fully
and l&ally, to fettle the ihatter. To enfure fuc-
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cefs, a fulfieient number (hould be {tnt, by differ-
ent Routs, for feat of accidents*
A
ftate offufpence> even in matters ef little im«
portance^ is, by no means agreeable ; and as we
cannot expc6l.a more favorable opportunity itis to
be hoped that this Enquiry will be no longer de-
layed.
If the intelligence that we, almod daily, receive
en this fubje6l« doth not feTioufly engage us ta
attend to it, other Nations, no doubt, will, if they
have not already, avail themfelves of our fupine*
Befs, and fecure to themfelves many advantage^
which we might have fecured: andihould that be^
thecafe^ the Publicwill havegreat reafon to regret
fuch criminal inattention and negled; elpecially,
as it might have been efieded, at £q trivial an ex*
pence, and with fo little difficulty^ That tfaefe ad<^
vantages are not viiionary, is evidentfrom GaptaiDt
Carver's Travels thro' the interior pant of North;
America.
I :i In the former publication on this Subje&> no*
tice was taken of the difficulty attending Pnncfltr
Madog's DifcovexyofAtaerka^JWilbouttfacMairir
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ner's Compafs, then not known, which difficulty
*s ftill held out as inexplicable. I beg leave there*
fore to add a few things more on that circum-
fiance.
It is aflerted by various Authors, that the Phoe*
nicians and Grecians performed Voyages to Bri»»
tain and the Baltic without the Mariner's Compafs,
We
are alib told that feveral Jewifh Ceremonies
and Cuftoms prevailed in America before the fup-
pofed arrival of Prince Madog on that Coaft. As
there were fome Traditions in very ancient times,
that a People on the Mediterranean Shores, fail-
ing through the Straits of Gibraltar, the ancient
Calpe, were driven Weftward, by a Storm and
were heard of no more; it is mod probable'
that thefe Ceremonies and Guftoms were derivecf
from them. They came to. America merely byi
accident, and To niight Madog. It doth not ap-^
pear that this Prince had any Idea of a Weftern-
Continent when he let fail, for he was not \^d by
inclination, but f( rced by ne^eflity and prudence
to leave his Native Country. He directed
hiat
cburfe Southward; but adverfe Winds^ aud flrong
Currents might drive him Weftward till be fell i^
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