 The title has been translated into English as An Old World and a New, The Discovery of a New World, and Another World and Yet the Same.Although the text credits "Mercurius Britannicus" as the author, Thomas Hyde ascribed it to Hall in 1674.The narrator takes a voyage in the ship "Fantasia", in the southern seas, visiting the lands of Crapulia, Viraginia, Moronia and Lavernia (populated by gluttons, nags, fools and thieves, respectively).