Any one may see that this Fable is founded on the History of Noah’s Flood; but whether it be a modern Fiction of the Popish Priests in that Country, or a confus’d Tradition that the Natives had of the Descent of Mankind from Noah, is left to the…
’tis obvious to every common Observer, that this Story is founded upon the History of the Israelites Departure from Egypt, and their wandering in the Wilderness before the came to the Land of Canaan; so that this Story must either be a Forgery of the…
and at the Place where they crossed one another there was a Rock, upon which grew a large Indian Fig Tree and here they alleged that an Eagle built its nest.
Their chief was the great Zuezalcoal, who, after having founded this empire, quitted it in order to take possession of other countries toward the East.
