Loss Of A Continent

Plato sent down to posterity a tradition of Lis dy that a great continpnt which oconpied tho spaoe now covered by the Atlantic ocean suddenly sunk down out of sight. He furtlier says that it was an island called Atlantis. On it were kingdoms and organizad governments, wealth, arts and civilization, instantly lost to human sight. It is now the opinión of the leading geologists - those most advanced in science - that the American continent appeared when the Atlantic waters rushed into the enormous cavity or depression on the earth's surface now filied Balt water. The Eocky Mountains were then the rough bottom of an ocean -whieh rose with marine planta, shells and other products of an aquatic origin, that are found abundantly strewed thero, and in fact, all over North and Sonth America. Eemnants of Atlantia, the subuierged continent, are believod by soma seientists to be rocognized in the Adriondacks, the White Mountains of Maine, and a few other out-cropping8 belonging to #10 other boundaries of that deluged and forever lost country. There is no knowing what astounding diseoveriea uiay yet be ruadb in coming ages corroborative of Plato's narrative.