America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the Nevv VVorld / Containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages Thither. The Conquest of the Vast Empires of Mexico and Peru, and Other Large Provinces and Territories, with the Several European Plantations in Those Parts. Also Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples, Mountains, and Rivers. Their Habits, Customs, Manners, and Religions. Their Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents. With an Appendix, Containing, Besides Several Other Considerable Additions, a Brief Survey of What Hath Been Discover'd of the Unknown South-land and the Arctick Region.

by John Ogilby

The Object I could first distinctly view,

Was tall straight Trees, which on the Waters flew;

Wings on their sides, in stead of Leaves did grow,

Which gather’d all the Breath the Winds could blow:

And at their Roots grew floating Palaces,

Whose out-blow’n Bellies cut the yielding Seas.

Mont. What Divine Monsters, O ye Gods, were these,

That float in Air, and fly upon the Seas!

Came they alive or dead upon the Shore?

Guy. Alas, they liv’d too sure, I heard them roar.