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must confine ourselves to discussing certain statements which 
are at issue either with known fadts or with each other. 
We read on page 28 : — “Attention may here be called to the 
extraordinary number of instances in which allusion is made 
in the Old Testament to the ‘ islands of the sea,’ especially 
in Isaiah and Ezekiel. What had an inland people like the 
Jews to do with seas and islands? Did these references 
grow out of vague traditions linking their race with islands 
in the sea?” Surely the Jews cannot be called an inland 
people, and since the maritime expeditions of Solomon they 
could not be altogether ignorant of islands. 
On page 265 we read that the Egyptians had a horror of 
the sea, whilst on page 3 we are told of their circumnavi- 
gation of Africa, and on page 243 of a naval battle gained 
by Rhamses III., in the thirteenth century before our era, 
against a people called Tokhari. 
Concerning the primitive religion of mankind Mr. Don- 
nelly states (page 285) that we find a great Solar or Nature 
worship in the older nations. But on page 293 this is 
changed. We are told that “ Men first worship stones, then 
other men, then spirits.” Sun-worship here has disappeared. 
On the same page it is asserted that “ Resemblances of 
names prove nothing.” Yet resemblances of names are 
again and again appealed to, even when so slight as that 
between Olympus and Atlantis. 
Concerning the Deluge of tradition we find on page 94 
that “ Egypt does not contain a single allusion to the flood.” 
Turning to page 67 we meet with a very dissimilar account : 
— “The priests of Sais told Solon that before ‘ the great 
deluge of all ’ Athens possessed a noble race, &c. ... So 
that the Egyptians, who possessed the memory of many 
partial deluges, regarded this as the great deluge of all. 
On page 246 the Atlanteans are described as “ a great 
maritime and commercial people, who carried vast quantities 
of copper, tin, and bronze (unalloyed by the lead of the 
South of Europe) to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, 
England , France, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy.” .... 
“Thousands of tons of copper and tin must have been in- 
troduced from Atlantis during the Bronze Ages into Eu- 
rope.” It is sufficiently bold to state thus the mineral wealth 
of a country which, if it ever existed, has been submerged 
for thousands of years. To proceed : — “ There are no 
ancient works to indicate that the tin-mines of Cornwall 
were worked for any length of time in the early days.” But 
on page 478 we read “ In its markets (i.e., Atlantis) must 
have met .... the tin of Wales and Cornwall , the bronze 
