But to go in safety, it is have to do. f^j,g^ ^|. ^Y^ necessary that they be placed in a good defensive position and well provided with arms and a fort, as the Spaniard who claims all the country, will never allow any one to gain a possession there ; and as the Spaniards have made many incursions as well above as below, in Florida, Virginia and thereabouts, I deem it not foreign to tell something thereof, being a mirror in which every one can see and defend himself, and liow the Spaniards always aim as well generally as individually at Monarchy. Such description shall be related in the commencement of Part the Seventh, as this Book cannot contam it.

Homo est animal sociahile, is in some sense a definition ; in some Of Colonies • scusc a dcscriptiou, of man. Men's sociability led them I'hTan^t'ientf to cougregate and to hve peaceably together, from which were begun, ^^.^g^ Hamlcts, Villages aud Cities,and afterwards Chiefs were chosen among them. These remarking that the collected ] leaps frequently so increased that they could with difficulty support themselves, a portion separated therefrom, who took up and settled the neighbouring places. The Patriarchs of the Old Testament, finding themselves altogether too many in their country, sent some of theirs into the uninhabited valleys, and cultivated these accordingly. The Assyrians wishing to enlarge their Monarchy caused their subjects to inhabit the invaded countries in great numbers. Those of the Persian Monarchy did no less. But the Greeks extended their limits very far ; for they by navigation peopled entire Islands, as appears by the highly learned Petrus Culverius, who furnishes us correct information on all points in his published Italy. The Romans domineering over the western world, spread colonies all over it, as is proved by the excavated stones found every where ; but what order they observed herein is well known to us.