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LIBRARY
The Glenn Negley Collection of Utopian Literature
in 2010 with funding from
Duke University Libraries
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ATLANTIS:
THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.
BY
IGNATIUS DONNELLY.
ILLUSTRATED.
' The world has made such comet-like advance
Lately on science, we may almost hope,
Before toe die of sheer decay, to /ram
Something about our infancy; when lived
That great, original, broad-eyed, sunken race,
Whose knowledge, like the sea-sustaining rocks.
Hath formed the base of this world's Jluctuous lore."
Festcs.
KLKVENTH EDITION.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by
BABPER & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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CONTENTS.
PART I.
„ THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS. „
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I. The Purpose of the Book 1
II. Plato's History of Atlantis 5
III. The Probabilities of Plato's Story 22
IV. Was SI (II A CATASTROPHE POSSIBLE? 31
V. The Testimony oi the Sea 46
VI. The Testimony of the Flora and Fauna 54
PART II.
THE DELUGE.
I. The Destruction of Atlantis described in the Deluge
Legends 6.1
II. The Deluge of the Bible 68
III. The Deluge of the Chaldeans 75
IV. The Deluge Legends of other Nations 85
V. The Deluge Legends of America 98
VI. Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends ll9
PART III.
THE CIVILIZATION OF THE OLD …