ATLANTIS THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD. BY IGNATIUS DONNELLY. The world has made such comet-like advance Lately on science, we may almost hope, Before we die of sheer decay, to learn 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 fluctuous lore FESTUS. Frontpiece: The Profile of Atlantis CONTENTS. PART I. THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS. I. THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK II. PLATO'S HISTORY OF ATLANTIS III. THE PROBABILITIES OF PLATO'S STORY IV. WAS SUCH A CATASTROPHE POSSIBLE? V. THE TESTIMONY OF THE SEA VI. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FLORA AND FAUNA PART II. THE DELUGE. I. THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS DESCRIBED IN THE DELUGE LEGENDS II. THE DELUGE OF THE BIBLE III. THE DELUGE OF THE CHALDEANS IV. THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF OTHER NATIONS V. THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF AMERICA VI. SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE DELUGE LEGENDS PART III THE CIVILIZATION OF THE OLD WORLD AND NEW COMPARED. I. CIVILIZATION AN INHERITANCE II. THE IDENTITY OF THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW III. AMERICAN EVIDENCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH EUROPE OR ATLANTIS IV. CORROBORATING CIRCUMSTANCES V. THE QUESTION OF COMPLEXION VI. GENESIS CONTAINS A HISTORY OF ATLANTIS VII. THE: ORIGIN OF OUR ALPHABET VIII. THE BRONZE AGE IN EUROPE IX. ARTIFICIAL DEFORMATION OF THE SKULL PART IV. THE MYTHOLOGIES OF THE OLD WORLD A RECOLLECTION OF ATLANTIS. I. TRADITIONS OF ATLANTIS II. THE KINGS OF ATLANTIS BECOME THE GODS OF THE GREEKS III. THE GODS OF THE PHOENICIANS ALSO KINGS OF ATLANTIS IV. THE GOD ODIN, WODEN, OR WOTAN V. THE PYRAMID, THE CROSS, AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN VI. GOLD AND SILVER THE SACRED METALS OF ATLANTIS PART V. THE COLONIES OF ATLANTIS. I. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN COLONIES II. THE EGYPTIAN COLONY III. THE COLONIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IV. THE IBERIAN COLONIES OF ATLANTIS V. THE PERUVIAN COLONY VI. THE AFRICAN COLONIES VII. THE IRISH COLONIES FROM ATLANTIS VIII. THE OLDEST SON OF NOAH IX. THE ANTIQUITY OF SOME OF OUR GREAT INVENTIONS X. THE ARYAN COLONIES FROM ATLANTIS XI. ATLANTIS RECONSTRUCTED ATLANTIS: THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD. PART I. THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS. CHAPTER I. THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK. This book is an attempt to demonstrate several distinct and novel propositions. These are: 1. That there once existed in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island, which was the remnant of an Atlantic continent, and known to the ancient world as Atlantis. 2. That the description of this island given by Plato is not, as has been long supposed, fable, but veritable history. 3. That Atlantis was the region where man first rose from a state of barbarism to civilization.