Displaying an immense knowledge of platonic and biblical material, comparative archeological discoveries, folk traditions of deluges, and. Being the second annual report of the commissioner of statistics for the years 1860 and 1861, and containing an abstract of the united states census. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. The great classic of atlantis, this book more than any other established the existence of this lost continent for the mo. Still the most readable and imaginative of the books on atlantis, it is a work that will long outlive most of the more recent accounts.
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