The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
GREAT CHANGES
 IN THE UNIVERSE Interesting Discoveries Of Lon
 don Scientist GREENLkND'S CLlMAT E The Land of Snow and Ice Was Once Place of Tropical Foliaee-Fve
 Great Continents In His
 tory of Man.
GREENLkND'S CLlM AT E

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The Bible speaks of one flood and one
 Noah who escaped in his ark with his
 family But it now appears that there have been many floods and many Noahs.
 Modern science and secret doctrine, in the testimony of deep sea soundings of
 the distribution of plant and animal life,
 of language and ethnology, of religious, architectural. and other remains, of an-
 cient writings, race traditions and arch
 aic legends of zoology. and other sciences,
 together with the findings of such inves-
 tigators as MT. W. Scott Elliott of Lon
 don, who claims to have had recourse to
 unusual sources of research unite in bear
 ing witness to the existence of at least three great series of cataclysms which
 have occurred under the influence of the earths axial changes, each effacing some
 old continent and giving rise to a new one, each the burial of an effete race and the
 birth of a fresh, which has marked some new phase in human evolution.
 The story runs that there have been five great continents in the history of
 man, and of these only one has survived
 from the beginning-the Imperishable Sa-
 cred Land, so named because 1t is said
 to be the cradle of the first man and the dwelling of the last divine mortal chosen
 for the future of humanity.
 Under Pole Stars WatchfuI Eye. Of this mysterious and sacred land an ancient writing declares that the pole
 star has it's watchful eye upon 1t from the dawn to the twilight of the day of
 the great breath" The second continent was the Hyperborean, the land which stretched out its promontories southward and westward from the north pole to re- oafxrA k1,< nad aVrfe end asN
 whole of what is now known as northern
 Asia. Such was the name given by the oldest Greeks to the far off and myste-
 rious region of the Hyperboreans the country that extended beyond Boreas, a real continent which knew no winter in
 those early days. nor have Its sorry re- mains more than one night and one day during the entire year even now The noe turnal shadows never fall on 1t, said the
 Greek, for it is the land of the gods, the favorite abode of Apollo. the god of light, and its inhabitants are his beloved priests
 and servants. Although this may be re- garded as poetized fiction nowadays, at that time 1t was poetized truth.
 Greenland Once Had Tropical Climate. The naturalists are all marvelously at
 one on the point that during the miocene age Greenland, and even Spitzbergen, tho remnants of the Hyperborean continent had an almost tropical climate. The pre- homeric Greeks had preserved a vivid tradition of this land of the eternal sun, whether their apollos journeyed every | year, and of which science says that | Greenland during the miocene age de- | veloped an abundance of trees. such as | the yew, the redwood the sequoa (allied | to the California species), beeches, planes
 willows, oaks, poplars and walnuts, as
 well as magnolia and zamia trees"
 1 In short Greenland had southern plants
 unknown to northern regions It Is | pointed out that if the Greeks in the days of Homer knew of the Hyperborean l land beyond the reach of Boreas, god of l winter and hurricane-an ideal region where nights were short and days were l long-and beyond that a land where the sun never set and palms grew freely. If | they knew all this-although in their day
 and for ages previously Greenland was clad in perpetual snows-then the tradi- ton must have descended to them from | some people more ancient than them
 selves, who were acquainted with those
 climatic details of which the Greeks them
 selves knew nothing. Even in our day
 are not wanting scientists who suspect
 that beyond the polar seas at the circle
 of the arctic pole there exists sea which
 never freezes and a continent which is
 never green-the true Greenland. The
 archaic teachings and also the Hindu | puranas. or sacred books, contain the
 same statements