The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-26
THE LOST ATLANTIS; NOAH'S
FLOOD; THE GLACIAL EPOCH
AND A NEW GEOLOGICAL THEORY

, mense moving pressure of the glaciers
themselves, from the sun heat which
local conditions made intense, from a
greater proportion of carbonic acid
gas then in the atmosphere and from
down-pouring warm salt water rains
from the continuing volcanic activity
To take up the propositions which,
in their sequence, lead this student of
the subject to his conclusion. To be.
gin with, the thickness of the ice blan-
ket which in recent geological time
covered all of northern Europe and
all the northern United States was
perhaps fifty miles. This estimate
contradicts that of Dana strikingly,
for he put it at about fifteen hundred
feet.
Now if we will leave the apparent
" solid and undisturbed land and
ocean beds alone, and remove the
more movable waters of the oceans, to
the depths indicated, and pile them
of ice and snow, then we would have,
again, glacial period such as former
| ly existed. And knowing the area of
the oceans, if we could discover the
depths to which the waters were re.
moved, then we could very accurately
estimate the amount of ice and snow
on the glaciated area. And knowing
the area covered by the glacial depo
sits, we could very accurately esti
mate the average height to which il
would be covered by the ice and snow
And from this we could judge what
the probable maximum height of the
glaciers would be-"
The modern deep-sea sounding:
bring out another detail of the oceans
bed to which the Thomasson hypothe
sis attaches prime Importance. There
exist beneath ocean depths. traces of {
vast continent which evidently disap
peared through cataclysm in the pre-
historic period. This continent is re
corded in human tradition by Plate
under the name of Atlantis. PLATE
derived the tradition from Scion, wht
in turn got it from the priesthood o
ancient Egypt:
Among other things, they toll
Scion there had been many floods il
the past, instead of one. And thel
they told him that 5000 years previous
to that time there had been a grea
island in the Atlantic ocean, opposit
the Strait of Gibraltar, called Atlantis
that it was larger than Asia Minor ant
Bibya Northern Africa; in fact,
great continental island, about a
large as all of the United States cas-
of the Mississippi river; that it ha,
been inhabited by a civilized and woI
drous people; that they had swarme,
up out of Atlantis and had cor
quered all of Mediterranean Europe t
and including Italy and all of North
ern Africa to Egypt; that finally the
were conquered by the ancient Ather
ians; that. the conquerors were the
swallowed up in a tremendous earth
quake and the whole island of Altar
tbs was then destroyed, as they SUI
posed, by an earthquake, and sun
into the ocean, the seas thereabout
being thereafter so filled with the mu
of the destroyed island that they ha
never since been navigable-so tn
priests said-showing their tale wa
then 600 B. O. one of very ancien
construction-fo in Solons time an
in Plato's time the Atlantic was III
questionably navigable and had bee
for several thousand years. There ha
been a time, however, as the priest
related, when probably it was not NAY
igable."
Granting the existence of the col
tinent Atlantis-a concession made