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skeleton of the extinct woolly rhinoceros was found. It has been 
sent to the South Kensington Museum. 
Dr. Scharff, in a paper read recently before the Royal Irish 
Academy, maintained that the Atlantes of Plato was a reality and 
not a myth, and that in ancient times it joined Morocco to Portugal, 
and extended to St. Helena Island. Greek and Roman historians 
state that the submergence of Atlantes occurred 9,600 years B. C. 
