Only among the Atlanteans in Europe and America do we find traditions preserved as to the origin of all the principal inventions which have raised man from a savage to a civilized condition. We can give in part the very names of the inventors. Starting with the Chippeway legends, and following with the Bible and Phoenician records, we make a table like the appended: +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The Invention or Discovery. | The Race. | The Inventors. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | Fire | Atlantean | Phos, Phur, and Phlox. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The bow and arrow | Chippeway | Manaboshu. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The use of flint | " | " | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The use of copper | " | " | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The manufacture of bricks | Atlantean | Autochthon and Technites. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | Agriculture and hunting | " | Argos and Agrotes. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | Village life, and the | " | Amynos and Magos. | | rearing of flocks | | | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The use of salt | " | Misor and Sydyk. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The use of letters | " | Taautos, or Taut. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | Navigation | " | The Cabiri, or Corybantes. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The art of music | Hebrew | Jubal. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | Metallurgy, and the use of | " | Tubal-cain. | | iron | | | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The syrinx | Greek | Pan. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+ | The lyre | " | Hermes. | +------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------+