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in the sea," and this location of the island corresponding so accurately in each 

 instance, modern scholars readily conclude that the Azores Islands in the Atlantic 

 Ocean, west off the Straits of Gibraltar, are the mountain summits of the engulfed 

 island. Their conclusions are based on the investigations made by different 

 nations. In 1873, deep sea soundings were made by her majesty's ship "Chal- 

 lenger." In 1874, by the German frigate " Gazelle," and in 1877 by Commander 

 Gorringe of the United States sloop "Gettysburg." Each investigation bears 

 corroborative proof of the other. As stated, they mapped out the bottom of the 

 Atlantic, discovering a great elevation of land in the exact location of Atlantis, 

 as described in ancient legends. This elevation rises about 9,000 feet above the 

 depths around it. And a writer in the Scientific A?nerican of July 28, 1877, says: 

 " This elevation must have been once dry land, as its mountains and valleys 

 could never have been produced in accordance with any laws for the deposition 

 of sediment, nbr by a submarine elevation, but on the contrary must have been 

 produced by agencies acting above water level." The sea soundings further 

 revealed that there were ridges of land connecting the island of Adantis with 

 Europe, Africa, North and South America. These ridges, says an English geo- 

 logist, were but the skeleton of an ancient continent that once occupied the space 

 of our Atlantic Ocein, and the island Atlantis was a remnant of this buried 

 continent. These ridges, forming land communications between the two hemis- 

 pheres explain the identity in the animals and plants.- From able accounts, it 

 has been proved that the horse originated in America; and in his wild state could 

 never have been found in Europe and Asia but for these pathway ridges of land. 

 We also read that the fossil remains of the camel are found in India, Afrfca, South 

 America and in Kansas, and that the remains of the cave lion of Europe have 

 been discovered in Natchez, Miss. Hence, the fact of the same species being 

 found on both sides of the Atlantic indicates that they roamed from a common 

 center. There are numerous other instances of absolute identity, but the limits 

 of this paper forbid their mention. 



The same similarity exists in the floral and vegetable kingdom. Otto Kuntz, 

 a distinguished German botanist, says that the banana was found in America 

 before the arrival of Columbus, and that before a plant becomes seedless it must 

 have been under cultivation for a long period of years. He mentions other plants 

 that could only have been transported by bulbs and cuttings, and that by the 

 hand of civilized man — which again supports the theory that the colonies from 

 Atlantis carried them to the east and to the west. 



The race identity of the two hemisphere bears even stronger evidence of a 

 common and an original home than the testimony of the flora and fauna. A 

 writer in the Magazi7ie of Ainerican History says the American Indian uses the 

 same terms in his river names that were used by all of the aggressive races that 

 over-ran and colonized Europe, Asia and Africa. Also, "the Indian names of 

 our rivers belong to a period when one common language was known — when 

 one dominant race ruled throughout the entire length and breadth of America.'^ 

 By analysis, the geographical nomenclature of the two hemispheres can be readily 



