effort of his own the trade winds carried his vessels straight to the West Indies. These winds blow in this direction _all_ the time. In December, 1731, a ship started from Teneriffe with a cargo of wine for one of the Western Canaries, and, having only six men on board, they were unable to manage the ship, and the trade winds carried them straight to Trinidad, on the Island of Cuba, of course. While Atlantis was sinking, some of the inhabitants escaped on rafts and boats, and, being exactly at the same point at which Columbus and the ship’s crew started in the path of the trade winds, there was nothing to do but wait, and they were carried to the West Indies, through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, to Yucatan and Mexico. We can easily see now why the oldest civilization of the New World is in Central America. Some of these emigrants stopped in the West Indies, for the aborigines spoke the same language as the Mayas of Yucatan to-day. Some stopped in South America, for Dr. Lund, the eminent Swedish naturalist, in the bone caves of Minas Gerais, Brazil, found human skulls exactly like those of the Mound-builders. The sudden destruction of these people recalls the beautiful lines from Richardson’s Geology, on “The Nautilus and the Ammorite:” * * * * * “They sailed all day, through creek and bay, And traversed the ocean deep; And at night they sank on a coral bed, In its fairy bowers to sleep. “And the monsters vast, of ages past, They beheld in their ocean caves; They saw them ride, in their power and pride, And sink in their deep sea graves. * * * * * “And they came at last, to a sea long past; But as they reached its shore, The Almighty’s breath spoke out in death, And the Ammorite breathed no more.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V. Deductions. ──────