[1. "The Geology of Brazil," p. 589.] {p. 368} "He shall deliver _the island of the innocent_: and _it is delivered_ by the pureness of thine [Job's] hands." And, as I have shown, in Genesis it appears that, after the Age of Darkness, God separated the floods which overwhelmed the earth and made a firmament, a place of solidity, a refuge, (chap. i, vs. 6, 7,) "in the midst of the waters." A firm place in the _midst_ of the waters is necessarily an island. And the location of this Eden was westward from. Europe, for we read, (chap. iii, v. 24): "So he drove out the man; and he placed _at the_ EAST _of the garden of Eden_ cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." The man driven out of the Edenic land was, therefore, driven _eastward_ of Eden, and the cherubims in the east of Eden faced him. The land where the Jews dwelt was eastward of paradise; in other words, paradise was west of them. And, again, when Cain was driven out be too moved _eastward_; he "dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden," (chap. iv, verse 16.) There was, therefore, a constant movement of the human family eastward. The land of Nod may have been _Od_, _Ad_, Atlantis; and from _Od_ may have come the name of _Odin_, the king, the god of Ragnarok. In Ovid "the earth" is contradistinguished from the rest of the globe. It is an island-land, the civilized land, the land of the Tritons or water-deities, of Proteus, Ægeon, Doris, and Atlas. It is, in my view, Atlantis. Ovid says, (book ii, fable 1, "The Metamorphoses") "_The sea circling around the encompassed earth_. . . . The earth has upon it men and cities, and woods and wild beasts, and rivers, and nymphs and other deities of the {p. 369} country." On this land is "the palace of the sun, raised high on stately columns, bright with radiant gold, and carbuncle that rivals the flames; polished ivory crests its highest top, and double folding doors shine with the brightness of silver." In other words, the legend refers to the island-home of a civilized race, over which was a palace which reminds one of the great temple of Poseidon in Plato's story. The Atlantic was sometimes called "the sea of ivory," in allusion, probably, to this ivory-covered temple of Ovid. Hence Croly sang: Now on her hills of ivory Lie giant-weed and ocean-slime, Hiding from man and angel's eye The land of crime." And, again, Ovid says, after enumerating the different rivers and mountains and tracts of country that were on fire in the great conflagration, and once more distinguishing the pre-eminent earth from the rest of the world: "However, the genial Earth, _as she was surrounded with sea_, amid the waters of the _main_," (the ocean,) "and the springs dried up on every side, lifted up her _all-productive face_," etc.