Arizona republican., 1899-08-22

E,ster island are supposed b be ac- curate portraits of Lemurians made
 by themselves and arg, perhaps, the only reTcs we have of their h3ndiwOrk upon which to build an idea of their civilization. It seems orange that these should be preserved in such a remote Pacific island while no traces of Lenurian art remain elsewhere, but if the eastern tradition IS correct the wonder is that even they remain. For the account is explicit enough in declaring that Easter island sank with the rest Of the continent, as did all the other islands Of ,-ha Pacific, but that in a volcanic reaction they after ward arose from the sea, and only these statues remained Unharmed in the general destruction
 The same eastern records also point to the existence Of two still earlier con- tinents-one embracing the far north (dOtted in the map), when mammoths and mastcdO1s and elsphar.s dwelt thers amid the semi-trCoical vegeta- tion of the Eocene period. the other actually at the north pole itself. BU. when these existed there was no Ar r.ca, America or Europe as we know them. Indeed, it would be difficult to say what existed and did nc'.. Yet w know from geological deductions that the whole of Europe was once far be- low the sea, as is evidenced by the shells and marine f0ssi1s on the high est Alps, and we cannot imagine the earth all water e's one time. Again, it must be remembered that the north pole has shifted it's position at least three 'imss since even the pyramids were built. So that it is impossible to II diti0n which says that '-he first polar continent, which contained the garden of Eden, was never actually destroyed, but is merely hidden by ice until evo- lution brings it to ligLt again and re- stores it's climate.
 The northern or second continent is said to have been destroyed by water, and the worldwide belief tha.s this world will be destroyed by fire doubt less originates from the hitherto full filled rule that the earth is alternately destroyed by fire and by water The same prophecy indicates further worlds CT continents to come after the course of evolution has long buried Europe under the sea in its turn, as Atlantis and LemuTia have been bur jed ages before.
 It is a well known flct that the cain IS never SI1ll- I1m6 S-t2r Ilme islands rise cut of the sea and d:sap- raar again, and what happens in small way in nature may quite logical ly happen on a large scale. There is certainly no limit to the powers of old earth by which she makes up afresh after age has dimmed her beauty. Jules Verne, in enc of his books, describes the effects of Q. change wrought arti- fcaHy in the earth's axis, and since 1t has been p.ovsd, 3s we have said above, that the axis has changed three times since the building of our oldest monum ents, we have no right for ac cusing the author of describing an i'm possibility. In the map it is quite i'm possible 70 do more than indicate roughly where these lost continents were situated, and allowance must be made for indent3tiCns and seas, as well as the parts of our present earth which are Of geologically recent birth. Thus, the Sahara was once 9 great sea; and NC,.sh Africa was joined to Europe just as England w3s to the continent; but it is difficult to say eX- actly when these things were.-Omaha World Herald.