The Ottawa free trader., 1876-01-15

"A L 1OCL l. 1CADU1E CI
they sought to destroy our countries at ;
blow; but their defeat stopped the Invasion
and gave entire independence to all The c0un
tries on this side the Pillars Of Hercules.
Atterward in one day and one fatal night
; there came mighty earthquakes ana inunda
ltions, which cngulted that warlikc people
Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea, ant
there that sea became inaccessible, 50 tina
navigation on it ceased on account of The
quantities OF mud which the cngultrd isanC
left in its place
"Thc oldest greatest, and most splendid
festival celebrated in At:ica was that Of Pana
thenaea, established by Erick,honius, in tht
most ancient times, to commemorate the VIC
giants of Atlantis. In some of the islands
outside of the Pillars of Hercules, the lnhabi
tants says Proclus, preserved from their an
cestors II remembrance OF Atlantis, an exceed
ingly large island, which tor long time
held dominion over all the islands of the At
lantic Ocean,"
Bourbourg quotes NJ. Charles Martin, who
said in the Rerue des Deur M0ndes for March
1867, Now hydrograph, geology and botany
agree in teaching us that the Azores, Canarles
and Madeira are the remains OF great CONT
nent, which tornerly united Europe to North
America"
Venus, which so resembles our earth 10
size, and in daily and yearly revolution, WhGn
seen through the telescope, appears to be dl'
versived by land and water IN a manner
strikingly similar to our own planet. Wesec
reproduced, in Venus, an almost sister world,
where continent accords with continent; save
that in Venus longitudinal sections OF land
connect the hemisphercs, while on our own
earth these corresponding bodies OF land are
slightly submerged beneath the ocean.
1t is evident, from Ancient records and
from scientific research, that the free distil-
button OF the animal kingdom, tcrrled over
the abyss of waters from u lost world, anu
turned at large in the Armenian Mountains,
call for an uninterrupted land communication
to the most remote cline. The time when lle
| first separation of our continent took place
is recorded in Genesis, where it is said that IN
the days of Peleg zone hundred years after
the food, was "the earth divided That
this division of the earth does not refer 10
the dispersion of mankind is evident from the
fact that, when dispersion took place, and
when the Most High separated the sons OF
Adam, lie divided the nations their inherit
ance, and He set beforehand, as appointed,
the bounds Of their habitatlon. One hundred
years after the Flood, the fifteen hundred In
habitantS on the earth could not be regarded
as sufficiently numerous to be securely scat
, tered over the whole earth" as was the case
at the actual date of the dispersion, when the
people were numbered by The millions, and
when the primeval knowledge, wisdom, and
parity, handed down from the golden age
had been committed to the chosen custodians
of the various tribes and nations.
But what caused this so great division OF
the earth SO soon after the Flood and the
mighty convulslons? by many the Flood is
supposed to have been cadsed by change
of the axis of the earth. Lubbock says that
his father, Sir John Lubbock, and many 9th
er able astronomers, were OF the opinion that
the Deuge might have been caused by
change being affected in the axis of the earth; ;
aud this theory appears to DC verified by
Chinese history.
The c inese speak of "tirst heaven, an
age of innocence, when "the whole creation
enjoyed n state Of happiness; when every
thing beautiful, everything was good all
beings were perfect, in their kind, whereto
succeeded a second heaven, introduced by a
great convulsion. The pillars of heaven were
broken; the earth shook to its foundations;
the heavens sunk lower towards the north;
the sun, the moon, and the stars changed their
motions; the earth fell 70 pieces; and the
waters, lnclOsed within It's bosom, burst forth
with violence and overilowed it, Man hav
ing rebeied against heaven, the system OF
the universe was totally dlsurdcred; the sun
was eclipsed, the planets altered their courses,
and the grand harmony OF nature was dis
lurbed
Such phenomena as are here described
could only take place when the earth was
changing Its poles. The equatorial diameter
being twentysix miles greater than the polar,
any change of the axis of the earth changes
also the position of the seas that pile up about
The region Il the equator; 80 that, where once
had been dry land, sea would appear. II a
change of GU degrees were suddenly effected
in the poles OF the earth, o column OF water
thirteen miles high would sweep over the
land, moving before it, not only ary detached
substances but tearing from their secure
foundations, and grinding to sand, the firm
set granite hills. But a gradual change o!
twenty or thirty degrees, while 1t would de
lugc he world with water, and redistribute
nearly all movable rocks and loose earths,
would not be attended with 90 tremendous a
wreck Of matter az in the former case.
The pressure OF water gathered round the
new equator on the crust of the earth's sur
face, doubtless produced the changes in the
coniiguration OF the earths surface, spoken
OF by Moses, as occurring in the time Of Pe.
leg, and of the further catastrophe which
overlook the unhappy inhabitants who dweli
in the fair and fabled land or Atlantis
John BudlOng, in Ladies' Repository for No
rGmber.
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