The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-06

that Ia appeared to Xisuthros, and an
nOunced that just before the summer sol
stice, all men should perish by a nood;
that he should gather the writings and
bury them at Sppara."
At the southernmOst point Of Europe is
a rock on its extreme southern projec-
ton is q seat, cut into the rock 10 reach
this seat l passed through a crowd or
people Of nearly every civilized nation on
earth. / sat there on Gebel-Tar and looked
across the water to the whiteWashed
walls of Centa, the northehnmost point
of Africa, the Gebel-Moosa. the pillars of
Hercules, the limits of the ancient world
Inquiring about this OF one Of the Moslem
Brotherhood, he said, the water is
very deep, yet shall a man pass from one
rock to the other dryshod;" and / learned
that there is a tradition of a people who
once lived there, who cut roadways be-
meath the surface of the earth passing be-
low rivers and mountains; that they lived
below the surface of the earth, and that
along the shores of the Mediterranean
sea, ana often far inland, thes catacombs
are found; that in America the same race
had wrought industriously; and that later
races often used their roads and rooms
for hiding places.
Speaking of the great loss to the arts
and sciences by the burning of the Egypt
ian books at Alexandra, he said "all is
not lost, only the perishable duplicates
We're destroyed; beneath, all is yet safe"
Afterward / searched for legends, or re-
cords, or other evidences OF this people
whose subterranean industry outdated all
supr9terranean structures known to man.
and found that they exist in abundance
The Chiapanese of Central America
claimed to be the first people who came
to that country; led by Votan; he came
from the east he brought seven families
with him. he built the city OF Nachan; he
wrote the history of his deeds" he states
that he is the third of the Votans: that
he belonged to the tribe of Chanes
(snakes); that he Travelled to find his re-
lations, the Culebres (serpents); that he
went by the way the Culebres had bored,
and that he marked it"
DR.. Livingstons letters state that
tribes live in Rua in underground houses.
some excavations are thirty miles long,
and have running rIlls in them" Numer-
Gus subterranean dwellings have recently
been found in Central America. Subter-
ranean passages and chambers are abund-
ant in Florida; are they the work of Vo-
tans brethren, whose cities and roadways
were beneath the surface OF. the earth?
Has anything Of value to the present
race been hidden in Florida? Is any in
formation in indestructable form await
ing explorers here? May not Florida con-
tain somewhere, maps Of the countries
and records of past greatness in which
as mother country, fertile, saIubrious.
wealthy, she became overpopulated and
sent out colonies to distant lands? Was
this Florida Tulan? Did one of the Tn
lans professors of astrology at the cen
trail seat Of learning near the present
Tampa predict the catastrophe in which
Tulan sunk beneath the wave; and then
they gathered all of their records of their
arts and sciences, etc, and placed them
safely in their subterranean temples. seal
ing up all its entrances against the com
ing flood; that many others did the same
each leaving marks in the ground bv
which, from the surface, all might again
be found?
They believed in reincarnation; was
Prof. Fab that astrologer, who, in his
reincarnation has really been looking
backward?
Note.-Some persons who read between
the lines VIII see that something more
than mere entertainment is intended in
this drawing together of widely separated
bits Of ancient and modern information
and concentrating them all on Florida
There IS an object in it; two. in fact
Florida's Industrial development has been
retarded, held in check, by the one doni-
nent erroneous idea that the state is a