The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-03-05
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can be kept hidden. There were low
ever. certain mysteries which during
fine last century the American public
rendered and worried over which are
.y 3. nnsolyed and. except by d few old
neonle are almost forgotten.
ono 81 these. perhaps the Oldest. Is
the question whether beneath the At.
lantic not far from the Balllnas tliee
Is a sunkel continent known to tie
Greeks as the lost Atlantis. It was
still talked Of -famiiiarIy in the first
half Of the last century. Scafarhlg
men declared that when the @ilter was
calm and clear they had caught
EItmpses Of ancient cities beneath. wish
their gltttering roofs and spires. and
that in certain conditions Of tile ntmos=
phere the tolllng Of the bells could De
distinctly heurl. Treatises were writ.
ten by learned professors to prove the
probability Of the legend, aud other
treatises, as learned aud vehement, to
fiout and ieer ut 1t as IN idle fable,
Certain tlOtslm and Jetsaln, which
was washed ashore after heavy storms
on the coasts Of Georgia and Florida
logs OF strange woods unknown to this
generation, coins, bits Of carved marble
and beaten brass was aseribed to the
long dead workmen Of Atinntis.
The lost colony IS now known only
as the subject Of an ancient fable, but
years ago it was by most educated
people believed to be an actual fact:
Another much discussed mystery
then was whit had become otthe coll
ony of CIVILIZED people who at the time
OF tile settlement of the country lived
ON the western coast of Greenland.
That country Is, us you will see by a;
glance at The map, shaped something.
IKE the half Of an egg, cut lengthwise,
the fiat side upon tile earth, the point
TO the south The rounded center is a.
heap OF fmpenetrable ice. mountains.
AS the centuries go by enormous
bodies Of ice slip from it into the sea
md breaking of, drift slowly down
along our coasts. These are the ice
bergs OF the Atlantic ocean, Now,
along the narrow slip of habihble land
which edges Greenland OH this side,
tradition SAYS, once dwelt civilized
ncople who both in Knowledge and the
habits Of life, we're far in advance Of
the iaplanders.
They were we'll known to the early
Danish navlgators, who made frequent
mention Of them in their logs and re-
norris The question yet unanswered IS,
where lre they now? Tradition among
tbe Laplandcrs reports that tie whole
colony two centuries ago emlgatcd in
4 hotiy 10 the eastern coast Of Green.
land attemptlng to cross the hitherto
fmpenctrable masses Of ice in the cen.
for No tldngs ever have come back
from them. Some Of the scientific men
Who accompanied the Hayes expedl-
tIon made ibis question a matter Of
snecial study, They reported that a
donbt cduld hardly exist TINT these
neople aid once inhabIt that part of the
coast and that they now had utterly
yanisbed r. thew had been swept
away by a pestilence their household
bslonalnps al least would be loft to tell
~ them Int mot a sharl Of pottery,
MT q single grave remains 10 show
that thew ever lived II was supposed
bv the Danish missionaries that they
"a norlshaI IN tho ranges Of ice