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THE SUNNY SOUTH
FIFTH PAGE
AN EXPERIENCE IN THE CHARLESTON
EARTHQUAKE
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APTAIN CHARLES H
C Burn, a veteran engin
eer of the Southern rail
way, is proud of a unique
dlswnctlon not enjoyed by
any other member of his
craft. Good years of his
life have been spent in the
railroad service, and he
was the man at the throt
tle of the passenger train
bound for Charleston,
which quivered and
f'l—* a the grasp of the terrible
t’.irthquake which played such havoc in
Charleston. The heavy track was twist
ed and wrenched out of position before
ihe train was stopped. When the signal
to start was given the engine could not
move around the curves made by the
earthquake.
"It was a horrible night,” said Captain
Burn. "We had been late on the trip
from Columbia, and after passing Sum
merville endeavored to make up for some
of the time lost. It was stifling hot.
\\ liile running at full speed there came
a rumbling sound, which was heard above
the roar of the train, and the big engine
staggered forward. I knew that engine
like a horse. The sudden swaying and
plunging almost hurled me from the seat.
Helpless, it seemed to look to me for
guidance, and as the track was jerked
three feet to one side and then slammed
to the other, the locomotive seemed to
nol the responsibility, but still plunged
on. No man that ever sat in a cab had a
similar ride. Over crossties, around the
sharp curves, swaying and plunging and
jumping, it was an experience to make
one's blood turn cold.
Not knowing the reason, but realizing
danger, 1 slapped on the brakes, but the
heavy train was bearing us onward and
into shouts of laughter. Abovfc the din
of battle can be neard their shrieks,
‘Come home, old gray, come home!’ He
hears their cries, and heeds them. With
nostrils extended, with eyes flashing,
and with hoofs striking fire from the
• flinty sod, on he comes, and, as he
catches sight of the guerdon of his squad-
1 ron he makes for it and halts. From his
I back alights a much chagrined officer,
amid tumultuous cheers. The. gallant
gray had pawned a major for a ciSonel.”
* THE LOST ATLANTIS *
By Joseph M Brown
How the track looked out of line
the engine continued to twitch and
squirm. As if paralyzed by fright, my en
gine halted, then rushed forward, to be
slammed to the right and then to the
left. Before we stopped the coaches had
run on to the twisted track, and there we
stuck. When I crawled down from the
cab and looked back at the faces peering
forward it was with a feeling of intense
excitement, and the engine panted like
a horse that had reached the top of a hill.
It is easy to run through storm and lire
and cyclones, but an earthquake—well,
that makes a different story.”
A picture which is prized by Captain
Burn shows the twisted condition of the
track after the engine and cars had been
moved with difficulty and labor. Before
the earthquake this piece of track was
straight as a die.
WELVE miles from Bruns-
T wick, spreading along the
banks of the turbid waters
of the Altamaha river, lies
the now historical planta
tions of Hopeton and Al
tamaha. Apropos of the-
renewed interest in sugar
cane cultivation and sugar
making in Georgia brings
to mind the fame of these
two o'd plantations.
In 1829 James Hantil-
t m t oo per, who owned the exten
sive plantation of Hopeton with
its miles of rice and sugar-oane
fields, erected the first plant in Georgia
lor the manufacture of sugar. At that
time it was superior to any in the West
Indies or Louisiana; in fact, stood first
until modern plants wore erected in
Louisiana in 1834 or 1S?5. There is no
doi Id but that the same degree of mod-
i rn thrift would have prevailed at Hope-
ten but for the fact that the price of
sugar fell to such a figure as to warrant
the plant standing idle for a season. In
the meantime the price of rice and cotton
had so ad\anced tjiat the canefields were
< itched and turned into rice culture, and
’he highlands into cotton. In 1813 sugar-
r.ino was cultivated for sugar-making
• •nly for homa consumption, the markets
Mill not warranting sugar manufacture
on a large scale there.
Hopeton and Altama are now the prop
erly of the Shakers, and are managed for
them by Tl'.eo Clark, a practical planter
of Glynn county. Small areas of sugar-
i ane are still planted, but the ■ ultivaiion
of rice is on a' large scale. Glynn county
nee. from these same lields, has captured
aist prizes.at all agricultural fairs whore
Hopeton plant near Brunswick, erected 1829
exhibited. In the markets Hopeton and
Altama rice brings a steady price—the
test.
The accompanying photo gives but a
partial view of the old and dismantled
sugar mill at Hopeton. In size the plant
covered an area of 39x240 feet. The thick
walls were made of a mixture of oyster
shells and cement, forming a mass famil
iarly known as “tabby.”
The grounds of ihe old plantations
around the cld home are still beautiful
with groves of water-oak, magnolia, pal
metto and pine, festooned with expansive
draperies of Spanish moss. An ideal spot
for the sympathetic soul of a poet, and
it is no wonder that a poet did dream
| there; while stretching beyond, down to
the fringe of sea, league upon league,
expanding and expanding to the east,
were the “marshes of Glynn.”
Hopeton and Altama are favorite places
for picnics and straw rides of the ever-
! resent generation.
parson burroughs has married
ONE THOUSAND COUPLES ^
EV. JOHN HENRY BUR-
ROrGIIS, of Bristol.Tenn..
married his one thou
sandth runaway couple
during the past week. He
is commonly and widely
known as "Parson Bur
roughs.” His sole pro
fession for the last eleven
years lias been that of
marrying, and his phe
nomenal record has been
gained in that time. Bris-
ed squarely on the Tennessee
nd Virginia state line. This gives Far-
im Burroughs an advantageous location
„ his calling. To him a greater part
f the one thousand couples have come
i cm Virginia, where the state law is
mre inimical to the matrimonial inten
ons of the young than in Tennessee.
Main street of Bristol is the central
met of the city. The state line runs
, the middle of the street. The quarters
f the marrying parson are on the fen
essce side of the street and convement-
■ near the depot.
These one thousand marriages have ta-
o,i place in the parlor of the Nickels
,,upe which serves also as the office
f the marrying parson. The Nickels
case is a respectable hotel which Mrs.
urroughs looks after while her husband
: attending to his more serious duties,
irs. Burroughs, however, is matron of
onor at all the weddings and takes a
mtherlv interest in every bride. She Is
uite as well known in the marriage
aremonies in the Nickels house as her
Parson" Burroughs meets the incoming
•ains with the regularity of a hotel
orter. Any who may be seeking his
■rvices could not be misled by his ap-
iM ranee. He always appears at the
epot ln his Prince Albert coat and
Bev John H Burroughs
wearing white neckties and a dignified
derby hat. His bearing in ail respects
Is ministerial. His small figure may be
seen nervously and quickly pacing up
and down the depot platform. Wherever
there is a couple of young people or a
bevy of them about the de-nt. there he
will most conspicuously present himself,
not as a vulgar prier or eavesdropper,
but with a delicate appearance of un
concern. If the prospective bride and
groom desire his services his attention
may be easily attracted, whereupon he
leads the way to the Nickels house—the
Gretna Green of Tennessee and Vir-
His presence at the denot. it is claimed,
has put it into the heads of many couples
to go to the Nickels house and be wed-
apture of a colonel
r THE FAMOUS JOHN H
OLONEL JOHN S. MOSBY,
he of partisan fame in the
late civil war, was the cen
ter of interest while at the
national capital a few even
ings ago. Grouped about
him at the Metropolitan
were, comrades with whom
he had shared the perils
of his daring raids. Anec
dote followed anecdote in
rapid succession by mem J
bers of the circle, at which
” lternately nodded and smiled,
boys,” he remarked, “before we
to our quarters, I will tell one
st one-and it Is not founded on
either. You all remember the
of 1864. Early confronted Sheri-
the Opequan. Those were sad
• those who wore the k ra -* •
,tox was only a few ,
The rugged lines in the gr
s features relaxed and the stern
istened. . . .,,-
General Lomax commanded the
ate cavalry, and Major Genial
Merritt the federal horse. His
its were, such men as Custer. T -
■gg and Buford. The union cav-
i in Its highest state of effeien-
tivity on both sides was at its
tension. It was ride all nignt
t all day. It was. I think. e » r >7
st that a fresh consignment oi
eached our camp. Among the.
lithe, high-strung, three-quarters
bred gray gelding. Major Tom
Marshall, of Fauquier, ran his critical
eye over him as soon as he arrived in
the horse camp, alid bought him.
“A few days later Sheridan decided to
find out what Early was doing, and or
dered Merritt to make a reconnoissance
up the valley. By coincidence, merely.
Farlv ordered a counter movement *t
about the same hour for the purpose of
finding out what tricks Sheridan was up
to. Between Berryville and Winchester
the respective bodies of horsemen met
and there, was a fight to see if the sever
al combatants were on their mettle. It
was charge and counter-charge. Sauer
cut responded to saber cut. revolver shot
to revolver shot, while, the light artil
lery sang deep bass to the refrain of bul
lets and the clash of cutlery. For a short
space of time the battle ran with an
even flow. Neither side seemed to gain
a decided advantage. Finally. Merntt
ordered up Custer s brigade of Michigan
men Fitz Lee’s right flank offered, to
all appearance, an easy mark. Custer
placed himself at the head of his men.
From the hill on which I stood at the side
of Tom Rosser I could plainly see his
vellow curls lifted by the breeze as he
rode in front, as usual. His hat was
in his hand. At first they came forward
at the trot. Saber scabbards rattled
merrily, while the nerves of our men were
being keyed up to concert pitch as the
enemy neared them. Fitz saw in an in
stant what was up. and got his men in
shape. ’Charge!’ sounded the bugle, and
swift and as straight as an arrow the
brave and hardy riders in gray sped
toward the foe. . , _ -
“Heavens! It was a superb sight. Sudr
Mrs John H Burroughs
• derl at once out of an impulse to he
romantic, who before had not given seri
ous thought to marriage.
Parson Burroughs has the distinction
among those who officiate at Gretna
Greens of being the only one who makes
it his sole occupation. It has been
worth his while between the marriage
fees he has received and the board money
his wife has made.
He has no fixed marriage fee. He has
received various amounts, ranging from
50 cents to $20.
Before giving himself up to his matri
monial business Parson Burroughs was
a Methodist minister, regularly ordained.
His standing in his community is high
and every Bristolian has a kind word for
their famous “parson."
AS RELATED
MOSBY ^
denly a gray ghost shot out from Lee's
front ranks, with an officer tugging hard
at the bit. On. on he sped and literally
tore his way into the federal cavalry,
heedless of shouts of ‘halt!’ reckless of
saber cuts and thrusts, and fearless of
bullets. Only when ihe maddened ani
mal had reached the extreme rear of the
union line were horse and man brougtt to
a standstill. Marshall, of course, was
deeply mortified, while his captors
thought it the greatest joke of the war.
But from whut the major now knew of
his mount he felt that some da*’ It*' woulA
reap a sweet revenge.
“The story now shifts to Cedar Creek,
thirty miles up the Aalley from the Ope
quan. Sheridan has crossed muskets with
Early and won the day. At an early
hour in the morning Lomax’s men make
a fierce irruption on Sheridan’s outposts.
There is scurrying to and fro in the. fed
eral camp, and Custer is again at the
head of his men. The fight grows hot
and even hotter. There is charging to
and fro: cries of anguish and shouts of
triumph commingle. Cannon balls and
shells tear huge gaps through the ranks
of friend and foe. Scores of horses gal
lop about widly and riderless. Others, the
veterans of many campaigns, with empty
saddles respond to the bugle calls and
charge with their companions against the
enemy. Over and above all is confus.on,
and In the midst of all is death. There is
a recoil, then a fresh onset, when, out of
the dense masses of blue coats darts the
same old gray ghost, bearing on his back
a man. Straight toward the confederate
lines he flies like a bird and as true.
"ihe boys see him coming and break
HOW GEORGIA’S FIRST SUGAR PLANT
APPEARS TODAY & **
ID it exist, or wer^all
the references to it in
ancient literature mere
fables? The subject is
a fascinating one for ro
mantic speculation, but
let us sift the evidence
on the basis of reason.
This writer, after
years of investigation of
the works of classical
authors, of the folk-lore
and other traditions of
the American races and
the deep-sea soundings
of the British ship Chal
lenger and the Ameri
can ship Dolphin and
oihers. is strongly of the opinion that its
existence was not a fiction.
Let us begin with Plato, who represents
the first and best-known of the authori
ties upon this point. He says, quoting the
words of an Egyptian priest to his grand
father Solon:
Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded
or your state (Greece) in our histories, but
one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness
and valor, for these histories tell of a mighty
power whieh was aggressing wantonly against
the whole of Europe and Asia and to which
your city put an end. This power came forth
out of the Atlantic ocean, for in those days
the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an
island situated in front of the straits which
you call the Columns of Herakles (Gibraltar);
the island was larger than Libya (northern
Africa) and Asia (Minor) put together, and
was the way to other Islands; anil from the
islands you might pass through the whole of
tho opposite continent which surrounded the
true ocean; for this sea which is within the
Straits of Herakles is only a harbor, having a
narrow entrance, hut that other is a real sea.
and the surrounding land may be most truly
called a continent. * * *
But afterwards there occured violent earth
quakes and floods and in a single day and
night of rain all your warlike men in a body
sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis
in like manner disappeared, and was sunk be
neath the sea. And that is the reason why
the sea in those parts is impassable and im
penetrable, because there is such a quantity
of shallow mud in the way; and this was
caused by the subsidence of the island.—Plato’s
"Dialogues,” II, 517. “Timaeus.”
Appropriately here, turning to the Holy
•ng between the two worlds called the “At
lantic;” a mythological deity called "Atlas,”
holding the world on his shoulders; and an im
memorial tradition of an island of Atlantis.
Can these things be the result of accident?
Now Plato might have created Atlantis out of
his imagination, but how could he have in
vented the islands beyond, the West India
islands and the whole continent (America) en
closing that real sea? If we look at the map, we
see that the continent of America does “sur
round” the ocean in a great half circle. Could
Plato have guessed all this? If there had been
no Atlantis and no series of voyages from it
that reveal the half circle of the continent
from Newfoundland to Cape St. Roche, how
would Plato have guessed it?
It is a surprising fact that we find in Central
America a phonetic alphabet. This is the al
phabet of the Mayas, the ancient people of
the peninsula of Yucatan, who cliam that their
civilization came to them across the sea in
ships from the east; that is. from the direc
tion of Atlantis.— Donnelly’s “Atlantis," page
217.
Characters kindred to or even identical
with some of those of the Maya alpha
bet were found by Dr. Schliemann on
articles excavated by him among the
ruins of Troy. Besides this, the Mayas
and Egyptians had many signs an<J
characters identical, possessing the same
alphabetical and symbolical value in
both nations, and a very large number
of the so-called Demotic Egyptian al
phabetical characters are found in the
inscriptions at Chichen and A number
of the most ancient Egyptian hiero
glyphics in the mural inscriptions of
Uxmal, Yucatan.
These inscriptions also contain charac
ters identical with some in the Etruscan.
When Columbus again discovered America he
and the earliest explorers were struck with
the similarity between many American tribes
and the Guanches of the Canary islands, re
mains of tho Ocean Atlantis in features, man
ners and speech—Priest’s “American Antiqui
ties.” page 313.
The sandals upon the feet of the statues
in Yucatan and upon those of the mum
mies of the ancient Guenches, discovered
in the caves of Teneriffe, are identical.
Now let us read the following extract
from the Le Plor.geon’s “Vestiges of the
Mayas,” viz:
In Egypt also we meet with the tracks of
the Mayas, of whose name we again have a
reminiscence in that of the goddess Maia, the
daughter of Atlantis, worshipped In Greece.
Here at this end of the voyage we seem to
find an Intimation as to the place where Ihe
Mayas originated. We are told that Maya
, . ■ was horn from Atlantis; in other words, that
Scriptures, wo read as follows. And the Mayas came from beyond the Atlantic wa-
unto Eber were born two sons; the name
of one was Peleg, for in his days was the
earth divided.”—Genesis x, 25.
The word “Peleg” is translated as “di
vision,” hence the verb “divided;” but
scholars versed in the Hebrew language
advise that the more correct version is
“rent asunder.” Hence the rendition
should be:
“And unto Eber were born two sons’
the name of one was ‘Rent asunder!’ for
in his days was the earth rent asun
der.”
Is it not possible that this birth and
naming occurred in the year of the as
tounding cataclysm referred to by riato,
which, by making the sea “impassable
and impenetrable” with mud, as was told
to that author, rendered communication
between the two hemispheres impractica
ble? i.
McCulloh, in his “Researches on.
America,” sustains the foregoing view
and shows that “both the Chinese and
Hindoo records chronicle a certain terri
ble geological convulsion as occurring in
the years 2357 and 2456, before Christ,
both of which dates fall within the life
of Peleg.” He adds:
The Arabians appear to have a belief of
Eomo great convulsions of nature happening
about this time—as see their accounts of Salah
anil Houd (Heber). the cotemporaries of Peleg
—In Herhollet's Bibloth. Orient.
The Hindoos have in their ancient maps and
records a region railed Atala, which they as
sert was sunk by earthquakes. (See Asiat. Re
search. volume 3, page 300. and also volume
8. page 375, where a more enlarged descrip
tion is given).
Buff on says this tradition of the island Atlan
tis is not devoid of probability, and that the
lands swallowed up by the waters were per
haps those which united Ireland to the Azores
and the Azores to the continent of America,
agree the matter should be. left to the
Bear in mind, please, that McCuiloh’s
work, quoting from Buffon, was pub
lished sixty years before the deep
soundings made by the Challenger to
which reference is made later in this
paper.
We find the existence of Atlantis re
ferred to by other classical authors be
sides Plato, viz: Euclid, who flourished
about three, hundred years before Christ;
by Proelus, by Timagenes, who wrote a
history of the Gauls during the century
before Christ; by Mareellus, by Plutarch
and several others.
The traditions of the Olmecs and Xica-
lancas in Mexico state that they came
to the southeastern coasts in ships from
the east. The Quiches declare that thev
came across the water from a country
in the far east. The Mayas of Yucatan
had traditions that they came originally
from the east, passing through the sea,
which the god made dry for them.
We may ask, was this the connecting
ridge which the accompanying map.
compiled from the deep sea soundings
of the Challenger, indicated?
The Aztecs in central Mexico said that
they had come from Aztlan. Their pic
ture writing shows that the inhabitants
of Aztlan were navigators, the place it
self being designated by the sign of wa
ter (atl), beside a pyramidal temple with
grades and a palm tree, which, of course,
do not indicate a northern origin.
Now, whence do we get the names of
Atlantis and Atlantic?
The words Atlas and Atlantic have no satis
factory etymology in any language known to
Europe. They are not Greek and cannot he
referred to any known language of the old
world. But in the Nahuatl language (of Mex
ico) we find immediately the radical a, atl,
which signifies “water,” “war,” and “the top
of the head.” Molina, “Vocab. en lengua Mex-
lcana y Castellana.”) From this comes a series
of words, such as Atlan—on the border of or
amid the water—from which we have the ad
jective Atlantic. We have also atlaca, “to
combat, or to be in agony;” it means likewise
“to hurl or dart from the water,” and in the
preterit makes atlaz. A city named.-Atlan ex
isted when the continent was discovered by
Columbus at the entrance of the gulf of Uraba,
or in Darien.
With a good harbor it Is now reduced to an
unimportant pueblo named Acia.—Baldwin's
“Ancient America,” page 179, quoting from
Brasseur de Bourboug.
Look at It! An “Atlas” mountain on the
shores of Africa, and an “Atlan” town on the
shore of America; the Atlantes living along the
north and west of Africa; an Aztec people
from Aztlan In Central America; an ocean roll-
ters.—Page 35.
The priests and learned men of Egypt con
stantly pointed toward the west as the birth
place of their ancestors.—Page 77.
And let us link to the foregoing quota
tions the following from DonnelJy’s “At
lantis”—p. 326.
Wilson tells us that the Aryans of India be
lieved that they originally came “from the
west.” Thus the nations on the west of the
Atlantic Took to the east for their place of
origin, while on the east of the Atlantic they
look to the west; thus all the lines of tradi
tion converge upon Atlantis.
How comes it that the gods Pan and
Maia of the Greeks reappear in the Pan
and Maya of the Mayas of Central Amer
ica; that the Welsh god, “Hu, the
mighty,” is found in Hunaphu, the hero
god of the Quiches, in Guatemala; and
how comes it that the gods, Baalim,
among the nations at the eastern end of
the Mediterranean se-a have their proto
types in the Balam-Qultze, Balam-Agab,
Iqui-Balam. of the Central Americans?
And how comes it that the chief god of
the ancient Irish was also that of the
Phoenicians, Bel or Baal, and that on
the first night in May, it was in some
parts of Ireland, and is yet, the practice
to build fires, called Baal fires, which cus
tom is identical with that of some of the
nations in the tropical regions of Amer
ica. at the time of the Spanish conquest?
Furthermore, how. except upon the “At
lantis theory,” can we satisfactorily ex
plain the following coincidence; An em
blematical object frequently found on
Irish sculptures is that of the human
hand, painted red. In Stephens' “Inci
dents of Travel in Yucatan,” be says that
“prints of the red hand are found on all
the ruined buildings of Yucatan.” Also,
the Ashlar ornamentation in Irish archi
tecture is found extensively in the ruins
of Yucatan.
Do not the above facts, in connection
with the revelation made by the deep sea
soundings, shown by the accompanying
map. indicate that Buffon’s theory, as
quoted by McCulloh. is a plausible one?
And upon what oth-->r theory can we as
well account for the Atalaya tower of the
Quiches in Guatemala and the Atalaya
towers in the Balearic islands, for the
truncated pyramids in Mexico and for
the same in Sardinia, and for the similar
ity and often identity in the designs paint
ed upon the pottery of Yucatan and the
mound builders of America, and of
Etruria. Egypt and ancient Troy?
Equally unacountable on any other
than the Atlantis theory is the fact that
in the Greek mysteries at the close of the
ceremonial were used the words, “Kon-x
Om Pan-x,” words foreign to the Greek
tongue and unintelligible to all commen
tators.
In the Hindoo mysteries the same words
appear as “Cansha Om Pansha,” words
foreign to Sanscrit and obviously of tra
ditional origin. In Central America the
same words are found as “Con-ex Oman
Panex.” words of the Maya tongue mean
ing, “Go, strangers, disperse.”
From the ancient Egyptian pictures we
see that they practiced exactly the Mex
ican game termed “the 'bird dance,” and
the mural paintings at Chichen show that
the Mayas, like the Egyptians, used the
color blue at funerals.
Well does Dr. Le Plongeon observe, con
cerning one comparison, “it will be said
no doubt that this remarkable similarity
is a mere coincidence. But how are wc
to dispose of so many coincidences?”
A striking corollary Indication of the
Atlantis theory is the practical identity
in Arabia and Central America of the
veneration for a black stone, placed on
both continents in a temple whose name,
of varying orthography, has a sameness
of sound, as well be shown in the follow
ing extracts:
While Abraham and Ishmael were thus occu
pied (rebuilding the temple of Caaba) the an
gel Gabriel brought them a stone—said to have
been one of the precious stones of Paradise—
whieh fell to the earth with Adam and was af
terwards lost in the slime of the deluge until
retrieved by the Angel Gabriel.—Irving's “Ma
homet and Ilfs Successors.” volume I, chap
ter 3.
Long before Mahommed the chief sanctuary
of Mecca was the Ka'ba. Thus the chief ob
ject of veneration is the ancient letish of the
black stone.—Encyclopaedia Brltannica, article
“Mecca.”
The black stone of the Meccan Kaabeh, said
to be of volcanic formation, etc.—Encyclopaedia
Britanniea, article “Arabia.”
The Greek historian. Diodorus, writing
before the Christian era, refers to this
temple, whose superior sanctity was re
vered by all the Arabians.
Let us now turn to Central America;
Brinton, in his “Myths,” says the Gua
temalan tribes venerated a black stone
brought from ihe far east and
placed in the temple of Kahba.
Bancroft (“Native Races”) says it
was brought from the east and
was venerated as sacred in the temple
of Cahbaha. Juarros (“Guatemala,” p.
167) says it had been brought by their
forefathers from Egypt
Map showing the supposed location of lost Atlantis
left bv the deluge, and that it is really
of volcanic formation. It was thus, we
may surmise, a stone which, hurled out
by the eruption in the fearful cataclysm
of Atlantis, fell upon one of the ships
of those who escaped and was borne away
as a fetish to its eastern resting place.
Its prototype in Guatemala was brought
(in a ship) from the east (Juarros guesses
from Egypt) and possibly adored for sim
ilar reasons, or possibly again a t.lack
stone was venerated in Atlantis, of which
the two were held sacred as memorials.
But in any event, that this identity of
worship and kindred tradition as to ori
gin were accidental coincidences, it is
difficult to believe.
Quoting from the Popol Vuh or National
Book of the Quiches, in Guatemala, Mr.
H. H. Bancroft says of the pre-Toltec
period:
After the creation of the first men, Balam—
Quitze, Balam—Agab, Mahucutah and lqui-
Balam, wives were given them, and there were
the parents of the Quiche nation. Among the
nations then in the east that received their
names from those that were begotten were
those of Tepetih. Oloman—also those of Tamub
and Ilocab, who came together from the east
ern land.
He then says that the elder sons of the
above first men. after the death of their
fathers, determined to go, as their fathers
had ordered, to the east, on the shore of
the. sea, whence their fathers had come,
“to receive the royalty.”
Doubtless they passed over the sea when they
went to the east to receive the royalty. Now
this is the name of the lord, of the monarch
of the people of the east where they went.
And when they arrived before the lord Naexit,
the name of the great lord, of the only judge,
whose power was without limit, behold he
granted them the sign of the royalty and all
that represented it. and Naexit finally gave
them the insignia of royalty—all the things,
in fact, which they brought on their return,
and which they went to receive from the other
side of the sea.—"Native Races,” V, pages
546-553.
This subject of an eastern monarchy ruled by
Naexit is shrouded in impenetrable mystery.—
Idem. V, pages 557-558.
But if we suppose it was the island
empire of Atlantis the solution is easy.
But does the ocean west of Gibraltar
present any testimony upon this subject?
Since Plato's story locates Atlantis in
that quarter this question would seem
a vital cine. To summarize, the Madeira
Islands are volcanic, so are the Canaries
anti so are the Azores, which were pre
sumably former mountain tops near the
center of Atlantis. The bottom of the
sea in that region is of red clay covered
with volcanic scoriae, and we learn from
the log book of the Challenger that there
is an absence of the sea shell growth
found everywhere else in the oceans.
These indicate the possibility of a catas
trophe by the joint action of volcanoes
and earthquakes of which that of 1SS3,
whereby a portion of the island of Java
was sunk beneath the sea. was a limited
type.
But for the geography and topography
let us quote from Donnelly:
Deep-sea soundings have been made by ships
of different nations. The United States ship
Dolphin, the German frigate Gazelle, and the
British ships Hydra, Porcupine and Challenger
have mapped out the bottom of the Atlantic,
and the result is the revelation, of a groat
elevation reaching from a point on the coast
of the British islands southwardly to the coast
of South America, at Cape Orange, thence
southeastwardly to the coast of Africa and
thence southwardly to Tristan d’Acunha. It
rises about 9,000 feet above the great Atlantic
depths around it, and in the Azores, St. Paul's
rocks, Ascension and Tristan d’Acunha it
reaches the surface of the ocean.
Evidence that this elevation was once dry
land is found in the fact that the inequalities,
the mountains and valleys of its surface could
never have been produced in accordance with
any laws for the disposition of sediment, nor
by submarine elevation; but, on the contrary,
must have been carved by agencies acting
above the water Ifcvel. (Scientific American,
July 28, 1877).—“Atlantis,” pages 46-49.
In these connecting ridges we see the path
way which once extended between the new-
world and the old. and by means of which
the plants and animals of one continent trav
eled to the other.
Sir C. 'Wyville Thompson found that the
specimens of tho fauna off the coast of Brazil,
brought up in his dredging machine, are sim
ilar to those of the western coast of southern
Europe. This is accounted for by the connect
ing ridges reaching from Europe to South
America.
Omitting what Donnelly and his author
ities say of the animals common to both
hemispheres let us quote:
But it may be said that these animals and
plants may have passed from Asia to America
noross the Pacific by the (sunken) continent
of Lemuria; or there may have been continuous
land communication at one time at Behring’s
strait. True; but an examination of the flora
of the Pacific states shows that very many of
the trees and plants common to Europe and
the Atlantic states are not to be seen west of
the Rocky mountains. The magnificent magno
lias. the tulip trees, the plane trees, etc.,
which were found existing in the Miocene age
in Switzerland, and are found at the present
day in the United States, are altogether lack
ing on the rmcific coast. The sources of sup
ply of that region seem to have been far in
ferior to the sources of supply of the Atlantic
states. Professor Asa Ofay tells us that of
sixty-six genera and one hundred and fifty-five
species found in the forests east of the Rocky
mountains, only thirty-one genera and seventy-
eight species are found west of the moun
tains. These facts would seem to indicate that
the forest flora of North America entered it
from the east, and that the Pacific states
possess only those fragments of it that were
able to struggle over or around the great
dividing mountain chain.
We thus see that the flora and fauna of
America and Europe testify not only to the
existence of Atlantis, but to the fact that in
an earlier age it must have extended from
the shores of one continent to those of tho
other; and by this bridge of land the plants
and animals of one region passed to the other.
—“Atlantis,” pages 58-59.
Concerning the Mexican calendar, which
was extraordinary for me substantial
agreement of Its calculations with those
of the astronomers of the present age,
Mr. Prescott says:
It is a curious fact that the number of lunar
months of thirteen days contained in a cycle
in the great Sothic period of the Egyptians,
namely 1491; a period in which the seasons
and festivals came around to the same place
In the year again. The coincidence may be ac
cidental, but a people employing periodical se
ries and astrological calculations have generally
some meaning in the numbers they select and
the combination to which they lead.—“Conquest
of Mexico,” book I, chapter 4.
Confirmatory of this statement note the
following:
In a letter by Jomard, quoted by Dolafield,
we read: The fact of the intercalation by the
Mexicans of thirteen days every cycle—that is.
the use of a year of 365*4 days—is proof that
it was either borrowed from the Egyptians or
that they had a common origin.—Bancroft's
"Native Races,” pages 62-63.
Is Donnelly altogether beyond tho
bounds of reason in his belief that Egypt
ai'd Mexico both received their civilization
from Atlantis?
The great Humboldt, who adhered to
the belief that America was peopled from
upper Asia via Behring’s strait, ac
knowledges himself at a loss to explain
why some of the name? in the Mexican
calendar indicated an mals or objects of
the tropical region. Referring to the god-
man (Quetzalcoatl) who, the Aztecs said,
established the calendar, he asks the
question:
But how can we conceive that this white
man (Quetzalcoatl), priest of Tula, should
have taken his direction, as we shall presently
find, to the southeast, toward the plains of
Choiula, and thence to the eastern coast of
Mexico in order to visit this northern country
whence his ancestors had issued?—Humboldt's
“Researches,” volume 1, page 94.
Lest comments from authors who have
made researches upon this subject be
come te-dious. tho
writer will refrain
from introducing
others, and will close
this paper with a
passing allusion to
the fact that what
is now termed the
Swastika, the earli
est known symbol
used by prehistoric
men, was found,
carved on the vases, spindle-whoris,
etc., on the hillsl of Hissamik.
among the ruins of Homer’s Troy,
by Dr. Schleemann, and has been
dug out of the ancient mounds in Ohio
and other parts of the Mississippi valley,
besides being found in Central America
and upon the coasts of Brazil and western
Africa.
In fact, a map and treatise published by
the Smithsonian Institution, in Washing
ton city, shows that it has been found
among the ancient ruins of Korea, the
islands of Japan, China, Hindoostan and
on both shores of the Red sea, on the
northern and southern shores of the Medi
terranean sea, in the Caucasus, om the
eastern shores of the Black sea, in tho
British islands, in Sweden and Norway
ard in America, as previously indicated.
It is not found lrom Korea, upwards of
1,500 miles to Behring’s strait, nor from
Behring’s strait down the Pacific coast of
North America, more than 3^100 miles, to
lower California. It has not been found
in North America w’est of the Rocky
mountains, nor was it found on the shores
of the Pacific ocean in South America.
Does it not r-eem a reasonable supposi
tion that this symbol was used in prehis
toric times in Atlantis, and that the At-
lanteans, w’ho Plato says wtere great
navigators, brought it to th e shores of
North, South and Central America and
carried it up the Mississippi valley over
the great river of that name, and that
their ships and those of the races with
whom they traded carried it to the east
ern shores of the Mediterranean and
Black seas, and through the Red sea to'
India. China, etc?
To the writer there are many other al
most equally strong indications of the ex
istence of the “lost Atlantis.” but refer
ence to them would make this article en
tirely too long.
JOSEPH M. BROWN.
‘JUST LIKE PAPA.”
The SwastiKa
It will be observed that for the Arabians 1 of fifty-two years, with the Intercalation, should
this stone was rescued from the slime I correspond precisely with the number of years
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