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Moreover, the uni-continental theory has too many historic possibilities to be lightly tossed aside. It is at once the key to the vexatious problem of the migration of the Indians from Asia to America and the mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond...
"Atlantis* is returning. ... As the result of recent seismic disturbances in the Pacific [Japan, Santa Barbara], a new plateau is protruding upwards from the bowels of the earth on the opposite side of the globe. . . . Without striking a blow, France will have another province, New Gascony."
* A fabulous continent described by Plato and early historians as lying outside the Pillars of Herculles (Gibralter) extending far westward, well populated and highly civilized as late as 9558 B.C. From the appearance of lava dredged by cable-layers, some scientists hold that Atlantis did exist (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924...
Faith:"They say that Brittany fisher folk have a legend that, off their coast, deep buried in the sea, is the ideal city of Atlantis; and from it, on the quiet nights, when the winds are still, if a man's heart is right, he can hear the pealing...
Hellenic legend records that Atlantis was larger than Asia Minor and Libya, that it lay beyond the straits of Gibraltar, that from Atlantis another continent to the west was easily accessible, and that an army of Atlantisians once invaded Europe and unsuccessfully attacked the Greeks.