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aurora so beautiful that no poet can describe.” ‘‘ For 30 days the 
moon walks amid the hosts of the sky in majestic grandeur.” 
Those 105 days of dawn and twilight are beautiful beyond the 
artist’s power to portray. Here, indeed, is the true city of the sun. 
Here is the only spot on earth respecting which it would seem as if 
the Creator had said as of his own heavenly abode, ‘‘ There shall be 
no night there.” 
Physiographical geography strongly supports the theory of 
a North Polar Eden. Prof. Wallace says: ‘The rich and 
varied Funa inhabited Europe at the dawn of the Tertiary period, 
as shown by abundant remains of Mammalia wherever suitable 
deposits of Eocene age have been discovered, proves that an exten- 
sive Polearctic continent then existed.” Prof. Hur, of Zuric, states 
in one of his works: ‘‘The Arctic fossils plainly point to the 
existence in Meocene time of a no longer existing Polar continent, 
it being submerged, and that evidence is abundant that this now 
submerged continent was the abode of primative man and all forms 
of primeval life.” The Arctic explorer, Baron Nordenskjold, speaks 
as follows of the territory north of 69 degrees north latitude: ‘‘ That 
an extensive continent occupied this portion of the globe, but now 
submerged.” 
To say that a circumpolar Arctic continent existed, now sub- 
merged, is not merely assumption, but is supported by the best 
authority. In fact, it is known very well that within a comparatively 
recent geological period a wide stretch of Arctic land, of which 
Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen formed a part, is now submerged. 
As to the forces which brought about this physical change it is 
not for me to discuss in this paper, as it would involve the question 
of the deluge, which cannot within the limits of this paper be gone 
into. I might, however, say in a word that as the earth’s crust 
thickened at the equator the poles flattened, allowing the water to 
flow over. This pressure of water still flattened the earth at the 
poles, hence a submerged continent. Will this continent reappear ? 
It may to some extent. As the earth’s crust thickens the water 
penetrates deeper, hence less surface water, and the poles may yet, 
to some extent, protrude. Then tidal retardation might also be con- 
sidered. This would lessen the size of the earth at the equator, 
deepening the water at the equator and causing the Poles to re- 
