If Don Luis ever reached what he sought, it was inanother world. But those who have ever bathed in Green Cove Spring, nearMagnolia, on the St. John's River, will be ready to testify that, had hebut stayed there longer, he would have found something to recall hisvisions of the Fountain of Youth.NOTESPREFACEA Full account of the rediscovery of the Canaries in 1341 will be foundin Major's "Life of Prince Henry of Portugal" (London, 1868), p. 138. Forthe statement as to the lingering belief in the Jacquet Island, seeWinsor's "Columbus," p. 111. The extract from Cowley is given by HermanMelville in his picturesque paper on "The Encantadas" (_Putnam'sMagazine_, III. 319). In Harris's "Voyages" (1702) there is a mapgiving "Cowley's Inchanted Isl." (I. 78), but there is no explanation ofthe name. The passage quoted by Melville is not to be found in Cowley's"Voyage to Magellanica and Polynesia," given by Harris in the same volume,and must be taken from Cowley's "Voyage round the Globe," which I have notfound in any library.I. ATLANTISFor the original narrative of Socrates, see Plato's "Timaeus" and"Critias," in each of which it is given. For further information see thechapter on the Geographical Knowledge of the Ancients by W. H.Tillinghast, in Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," I.
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