Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-25

F., recently published separate of the
Smithsonian annual report
No affirmation is yet permiSSi blc
put II seems more and moro cvidcn,
| that vast region. continental or made
| up of great islands. has COLLAPSED wes,
OF the Pillars of Hercules. otherwise
called tho Strait OF Gibraltar. ana that
It's collapse occurred in the not far.
| distant past. In amy event. tho ques-
ton or Atlantis is placed anew be-
Tore men of science"
To many minds, Atlantis has been n
fablcd country. u part OF the interest
ing mythology of the. Eastern world
| and an iucNhaustIblc subject for poet
from the days OF Plato on, hut now
NJ Tcrmicr says
1t may he. indeed. that the poets
once were more right After a lon.
period of disdainful Indifference. oh.
serve how III the last few years
science is returning to tho study OF
Atlantis. How many naturalists, EcoIo-
GiStS. or hotaniSts. are asllin: one
another to-day whether Plato has not
transmitted to us, with slight ampIiH
cation. q page from actual history of
mankind
From the Smithsonian pamphlet i'm
which NJ. Ternicr quotes a part Of
Plato's dialogue. "Timaeus." or Con
corning Nature" the following facts.
as stated by an old E.Cyptian nricxt
arc secured:
Athens was destroyed by singu.
'arly powerful army, which came from
an island larger than Libya. and even
Asia, lying IL the Atlantic Ocean be.
yond the strait caller the Pillars of
Hercules. From this island ON, couIi
easily pass To other islands and from
them 10 the entire continent. which
surrounds the interior sea In IN,
Island OF Atlantis roisned kings of
amazins power. having under theii
domain several other islands also and
some parts OF the continent. as vol :,a
LibNa as far cast as Egypt, and Europe
as far as Tyrrhcnan Sea. All this
power WAS once united 10 Si,bi,Irnto
Athens. but the Athenians STONED Tho
invasion and restored all the na,ion.
living on that side tcasD OF the Pill
ltrs OF Hercules To independence. Later
With great earthquakes and inunda-
tons, in single day and one fatal
night all who had been warriors against
Athens were swallowed up. ana tho
island of Atlantis disappeared beneath
the sea"
The author says that the above mar
rhtlN" has not at all the colorinc OF a
table. but AN cxactNcsS almost scienti-
ic. It may he thought that tho di
mcnsious OF the Island Of Atlantis are
slightly exaggerated here, but we mus,
remember that the Egyptian priest did
not know the immensely Of Asia
AZ
lantis' which is also from the .''rim-
aeus, Plato describes the famous ISL
and
According 10 the Egyptian tradition
n common war arose 5000 years ago
between the nations on this side OF tho
fiIlars o' Hercules and the nations
coming from beyond. on one side Il
was Athens; on the other the Kings Of
Atlantis We have already said that
this island was larger than Asia and
Africa. but that ii became submerged
following an earthquake and that its
place IS no longer met with, except
as a sand bar which stops navica.ors
and renders tho sea impassable"
Plato also develops the Egyptian ira
dition of the fabulous origin of Allan
tbs, fallen to the share of Neptune nnd
N which this god placed his ten mortal
children. He describes the cradle n.
tn" Atlantic race as fertile plain To-
Gated near the sea and opening into
Tn" central part OF the island. About