Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-12-15
"Th. Lost Atlantis"
SECOND PAPER.


Of announcements have come to US through
the media Of history, discovery and science
that point. at least, to America as the Lost
Atlantis. sufficiency of those announce
ments can be conveniently grouped In the
following specifications:
No. |. The peculiar conform alton Of
the new world along the shores Of the Gulf
OF Mexico, In almost everything. indicates
sinking At remote period of q large
tract OF land, the place of which Is now
occupied by the Gulf; sinking occasioned,
in all probability, by the sudden rush of q
vast body Of water. walled in between
lofty ranges of mountains, down the pres
ent valley Of the Mississippi. And Lyell,
In his Geology, says that Immediately be-
meath the chalk formation In SufYolkshire,
England. Is Q huvial formation called the
wealden, having an area of more than l2,-
700 square miles and depth, where deep
est, Of nearly 1000 feet. AS respects its
cause this formation Is similar to that
spoken Of above.
NO. H. Quite number Of years ago
the exact date has escaped me-our gov
ernment sent an expedition into Central
America FOR the purpose of exploration.
The result was the discovery of ruined
cities and temples, the style OF whose ar
chttecture carries US back to the times of
the earlier Egyptian dynasties, reminding
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sphinx OF the pyramids. Among the ruins
in Copal and Palenque and Uxmal, &C., in
what was formerly the province of Yuca-
tan, were found colossal granite columns
and capitals. lying PROSTATE on the ground,
over which the dust Of ages has gathered
to a depth sufficient for the growth of
oaks thought to be at least thousand
years old and carved on those capitals are
religious symbols and ornaments that re-
mind US strongly of the priestly mysteries
OF the east. With these facts In discovery
we should couple the historical statement
given in our hrst paper that Plato OBJ
talned his knowledge respecting the At
lantls legends from Egyptian priests.
No. III. There is in the Atlantic ocean,
nearly on line between Northern Africa
and our Carolina coast, a spot known as
the Saragossa Sea. why called a sea
am at loss TO imagine.) Ii is simply a
vast collection of detached sed,ceed held 10
position by an ocean eddy. 1t is said to
resemble very much a vast inundated
meadow; and a Grecian historian, three
centuries b. c., tells US that some PhP-
nician vessels, driven by east winds,
reached, after a navigation of thirty days,
part of the sea where the surface Of
the waters was covered with rushes and
seaweed Ana some of the ancients knew
of that floating island and even ascribed
its existence to some cause connected with
The Lost Atlantis"
No. ~. II is found that the similarity
the West Indies in 1892 and those of sew
eral of the farinterior African tribes was
so great as to make them almost Identical.
Such are some of the leading facts con-
tributed by science, discovery and history.
More could easily be given. but 'enough il.
as good as feast And now, what are
some Of the inferences that more readily
come TO mind? Are they not these?
FROM No. |. That. il geology can fur
ni-h Us with snch data on which to build
theory, 1t may surely be pardonable in US
to linger with something of fond belief
around the legends of the Lost Atlantis.
All must admit that those legends, instead
of being the mere offspring of a poetic
imagination, must have had not little
foundation In actual truth
FROM No. III. First. That the Central
American ruins antedate by long ages the
earliest Mexican and Peruvian civiliza-
tions. Second, That there is significance
In the fact that in the selfsame Egypt are
found the birthplace of the Atlantis ira
ditions and the architectural prototype Of
the American ruins. am almost ready 10
say that kno,o that Egypt had to do with
the style of those buried temples. The
architecture of the two lands Is quite too
much alike to allow me to believe In their
eternal non acquaintance. One can hardly
imagine a stronger link with which to bind
the two together. Third. That 1t is more
than possible that the Egyptian religious
symbols left alike their Visible impress on
minds of our own Columbia of thirty-th
centuries ago.
FROM No. III. That those Phenician
caravels passed through the Saragossa
Sea and landed somewhere on the shore.
Of the new world.
FROM No. Nv. That the identity, so
well, nigh certain, of those traditions seems
to point Enthusiastically to the same origin,
and therefore warrants the belief that
those tribes in Central Africa had, In very
early times, commercial intercourse with
Egypt. And from a comparison of the
entire data in the specifications, may we
not with some show of reason deduce the
general inference that the submerged
land beneath the Gulf of Mexico was once
entire isla. originally embraced the west
ern continent and that the 'other islands in
the vicinity the words in the ira
dition-were those known to us as the
West Indies and Bahamas,
l should not very much fancy the charge
of being visionary, neither would l be
over -sanguine; and IL any Of nv readers
find stOut cause, as they suppose, for re-
belling against the above differences. we
will, rather than have trouble in family,
agree to settle calmly down upon this H.
nality, viz: That although we, as a ma
ton. have no outright warranty deed of
The Lost Atlantis" yet we are in un-
disputed possession of mortgage which,
in all human probability. will never be
lifted.