Atalantis Major by Daniel Defoe — Read

There having been a large Account given to the World of several remarkable Adventures which happened lately in the famous _Atalantis_, an Island, which the ingenious Authors found placed in the _Mediterranean_ Sea; the Success of which Accounts, but especially the Usefulness of the Relation, to the Ends for which they were designed, having been very remarkable, I thought it could not be unacceptable to the World, (especially to those who _have been Already so delighted_ with News from that Island) to give a particular Historical Narration of some remarkable Transactions which happened in the Great Island, called, _Atalantis Major_, a famous well known Island, tho' much farther North, lying in the _Ducaledonian_ Ocean, which Island it was my good Fortune to winter at, the last time I returned North about from _China_, by the Streights of _Nassau_ and _Wygates_, and the Eastern Coast of _Grand Tartary_.

I have nothing to do to enquire, whether our late Authors mistook or not, in placing the Island _Atalantis_ in the _Mediterranean_ Sea, or, whether they might find some small Island of that Name among the infinite Crowd of Islands of the _Egean_ Sea: But as the mighty Transactions of which my History shall be the faithful Relator, are of too great Consequence in the World to be brought forth on so mean a Stage; so the Place, and the mighty People, and by whom this Revolution of Affairs have been mannaged, are all suitable to the Greatness and Glory of the Actions themselves.