II. The Hyperborean.

This will be the name chosen for the second Continent, the lai
which stretched out its promontories southward and westward from thi North Pole to receive the Second Race, and comprised the whole of what is now known as Xorthem Asia. Such was the name given by the oldest Greeks to the far-off and mysterious regfion, whither their tradition made Apollo, tlie Hyperborean, travel every year. Astro nomically, Apollo is, of course, the Sun. who, abandoning his Hellenic sanctuaries, loved to annually visit his far-away country, where the Sun was said to never set for one half of the year. **'Eyyv« yap wttrwi t€ ^fuiTo^ c/o-i KcXcvtfoi," says a verse in the Odyssey.\
But historically, or better, perhaps, ethnologically and geologically. the meaning is different. The land of the Hyperboreans, the country* that extended beyond Boreas, the frozen-hearted God of snows and hurricanes, who loved to slumber heai-ily on the chain of Mount Rhipoeus, was neither an ideal countr>', as surmized by the Mytholo- gists, nor yet a land in the neighbourhood of Scythia and the Danube.
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UBHDRIA AND ATLANTIS.
It w.*j a real Continent, a bona fide land, which knew no winter in those early days, nor have its sorr>' remains more than one night and day during the year, even now. The nocturnal shadows never fall upon it, said the Greeks; for it is the "Laud of the Gods," the favourite abode of Apollo, the God of light, and its inhabitants are his beloved priests and servants. This may be regarded as poetized /w-// was poetized truth then.
111. Lemuria.
The third Continent, we propose to call Lemuria. The name is an iorention. or an idea, of Mr. P. L. Sclater, who, between 1850 and 1S60, asserted on zoological grounds the actual existence, in prehistoric times, of a Continent which he showed to have extended from Mada- gascar to Ceylon and Sumatra. It included some portions of what is now Africa: but otherwise this gigantic Continent, which stretched Iron the Indian Ocean to Australia, has now wholly disappeared be- neath the waters of the Pacific, leaving here and there only some of its highland tops which are now islands. Mr, A. R. Wallace, the Xaturalist, writes Mr. Charles Gould:
Extends the Australia of Tertioo' pt^nods to New Guiuea aud the Solomon Islands, And perhapB to Fiji, and from its marsupial types infers a connection with the ncrrthem continent during the Sccondarj' period.*
The subject is treated at length elsewhere.f
rV. Atlantis.
Thtis we name the fourth Continent. It would be the first historical land, were the traditions of the Ancients to receive more attention than they have hitherto. The famous island of Plato of that name was but a firagment of this great Continent. J