THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. Ill 



THE LOST ATLANTIS. 



Coiilinued. 



Since I read the above portion of the Paper on this sub- 

 ject, Airs. Myles kindly called my attention to a work in her 

 possession by Dr. W. F. Warren, President of Boston L'niver- 

 sity, entitled ''Paradise Found," "The Cradle of the Human 

 Race at the Xorth Pole." Being unable to procure many 

 books I read, relating- to the Arctic Regions here, I felt un- 

 willing to give merely the purport of what had been written 

 on the subject of the Fauna and Flora of the earlier Tertiaries. 

 I felt quite satisfied the Doctor would naturally allude to some 

 of the authorities who suggested to him the novel theory of 

 An Eden in the Arctic Circle. On consulting the work of 

 the learned gentleman, I found he not only names the leading 

 scientific men, but also furnishes many extracts from their 

 writings in support of his views. From a very early period to 

 the days of the late Dr. Livingston, who expected to find Para- 

 dise somewhere near the source of the Xile, theologians and 

 travellers have endeavored to fix the site in Cevlon, etc. It has 

 been claimed as having existed in different parts of Asia, Af- 

 lica, Europe and America, but no such place as is describe 1 

 in Geneses can be recognized now. so in order to save the 

 credit of the writer of the ancient Hebrew legend, following 

 the hint taken from a French writer, Bailly, who early in the 

 century expressed a similar belief respecting "The Lost Atlan- 

 tis." He selects the Polar Circle as "The Cradle of the PIu- 

 man Race," and a submerged Miocene (or Eocene) (Dawson) 

 continent as the seat of Paradise. The situation selected pre- 

 sented serious obstacles to scientific investigation perhaps. 

 However, it must afiford Dr. Talmage and his admirers very 

 great satisfaction to feel that one President of a U.S.iV. Uni- 

 versity yet is left, who firmly believes in ancient Chaldean 



