Word: pastoralized
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While the stenographer wrote it down, Pastor Spanuth leaned against the gunwale, breathing hard. Plato, he was sure now, had guided him to the right spot...
...Wall." The boat circled Helgoland, the rocky island and former fortress 28 miles off the Schleswig-Holstein coast. Guided by Pastor Spanuth, it moved toward shore and anchored 50 stadia (5.7 miles) from Helgoland. The diver dropped overboard and walked along the sandy bottom 30 feet below the surface...
...What do you see?" Pastor Spanuth asked him over the telephone...
...Possible." As described by Plato, Atlantis does not sound very much like what Pastor Spanuth found. Atlantis was a very large island, as big as North Africa and Asia Minor put together, and Plato located it outside the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar). The land had high mountains, level plains and a network of wide canals. Its great temples were encrusted with silver and gold. Nine thousand years before Plato's time, it sank into the sea (the Atlantic...
...Pastor Spanuth has ways to explain away such minor difficulties. Plato, he says, was not infallible. After all, he got his information in a very indirect manner through Egyptian priests, never noted for scientific precision...