Hesperides

Inclinations no leſs vigorous have of late been obſerved in Europe, but with more ſucceſs; who not being bounded by Herculean Bars, paſt ſo far through (till then) the unmeaſured Atlantick, that they lighted upon a new World, a flouriſhing Heſperides, Regions whoſe Sands were Gold, Earth Plate, and Rivers Silver, a Paradice extended to the Arctick and Antarctick Circles, with ſeveral other Countries and Iſlands that reach almoſt the utmoſt latitude of either Poles, out-ſhining all the Fables of Antiquity, and boldeſt Tales of their Poetick Dreams; […]