Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-26
From the New York Mercury.
Tale of the Flood.

GENT TRISTAN CHRONICLE REVEALS
-SrtRRlNG EVENTS FIVE THors-
AND YEARS AGo-PLATo's ACCOUNT
OF ATLANTIS CONFIRMED liz
FIRST HOME OF THE AMERICAN IN
DIAN.
The n. Y. Mercury Of December Is,
had an interesting account OF the dis
coyery of an old chronicle in the trls-
ian tongue-which may be called the.
grandmother of .AnglJ Saxon language
giving an account of events that
occurred in Europe two thousand
years before the Christian era. Since
then another iustallment OF the con
tents of this remarkable book has
reached us, and we make haste to lay
it before our readers. 1t treats OF
that terrible scourge that overcame
the earth 4,OG8 years ago, and Is
known IN Biblical history rs
TIE DELUGE.
1t is stated in this ancient chronicle
that for more than ten tho lsand years
there was a mighty continent eXtend'
inc to the West ''for many thousands
of journeys meaning an immense
distance, which the people called AT
land or Old Land. From the name CT
Atland Plato probably got the knoWl-
edge of what he speaks in his book
ssTimacos, and he corrupted the FITS
ian word Atlaud into the Greek-sound'
ING Atlantis. The people inhablt!n&
that continent were Il very Wailike
race and counted by many millions
They overran what is now known as
Southern Europe and Northern AtrI'
ca, and conquered the nations living
there. The chronicle describes thai
people as being Of dark reddish hue
which description would fit the COLO
OF our Indians, and hence the suppo
sition that the America of today wa
at that ancient time par! OF the con
tlnent of Atland, which fact would a
once explain what many ethnolos's'
have hitherto failed to do, the origi
!, of the Indian population OF Amerc;
The legendary account OF Plato, VIII
speaks of tremendous battles Tough
between the people Of Greece and tn
red invaders from Atlanta, is full
{ correlated by the F'rlslan relic OF III
tiquity. What became Of this gre'
continent and Its millions Of inhab
tants is told as follows:
e 1t was in the year 2,1o3 before IL
r birth of Christ that terrific convulslo'
d shook the globe. Earthquakes, vc
o cauic eruptions, thunderstorms' ral
Isl showers Of great vehemence succee
q ed each other, and continued for II
It three years. Deep valleys rose IN
"a mountains, and rocky heights we
,r cleft in twain and sank into valley
al Oceans eucroached upon the land, t
lightning set fire to the forests, a
r. smoke clouds changed the days III
rs one continuous night. Before the
a.. mowers of destruction, mankind souS
re refuge in flight, but few only we
he able to escape. For months d
"a months the sun and the tirmamt
Ill were invisible, and the roar and IT
ho of the element were 50 great, says Il
va book, that men trembled and oil
in from fright, nor could one 'a'N "
ito other, it being impossible to be hea
,ol AT last, after three years, the exc
,et ment gradually subsidized, and hav'
no waited some time, few OF the bot
or Fl .ermen of Frisia ventured out u
nv tne waters. They returned no
di and told most pitifnl tale. Betol
ny THE TREMENDOUS WAR OF THE f
- =. MENTs
OIL these same fishermen were IN the II
ut it of visiting Atland for purposes
id. trade, but now, they said, not tr
int was left of all that vast continent.
tor tar as the eye could reach to the 50
,ed and west nothing but water could
seen, the land, with all its millions
ent people having evidently dlsappea
40 in the ocean. This recital found
the teS believers at first, and expedlt
rec after expedition was sent out by
Frisans to ascertain whether 1t ";
ncb fact, but they al brought back
Nv same story-that OF the immense
inc unent of Atland nothing remained
Ian cept few islands, which are
tho known as Madeira, the Canaues,
Cape Verde Islands, and the Azc
So great an impression did the e
ion. make upon the Frisians that the $
,76 ing of Atland, or Allan It's, was Dc
ed by them as the beginning of n