Show DONNELLYS IDEA OF AMERIO AMERICA ignatius donnelly finds it a supporter of his atlantis theory in ill sir daniel wilson jilson president of tile the university of toronto who lie cording to the milwaukee journal declares after a n great areat deal of search search that the lost A atlantis was not a 1 myth but that it really was the continent of america ile he accounts for fir its disappearance from view view in in a different way but that is merely incidental donnellys donnellyy Don nellys theory was that tile the land was submerged by some great volcanic upheaval 7 and that from those who escaped to the continents of europe ond asia came the tradition of oatlie the deluge sir daniel rejects this explanation as b being ell disproved by the fact that there are no traces of such volcanic action either on the continent or in in theocian the ocean bed ile he believes that the ancient egyptians tho the most pr progressive Ores 0 sive and adventurous people of ancient times discovered the continent but that in the decline ua both th of their learning and power it became became lost to view and existed at the time our knowledge of egypt be beins begins ins merely as a shadowy tradition it is his opinion that traces of the egyptians of those days are to be so sought in the ruined cities of central america w whose hose origin has never been determined or even cven made the basis of any reasonable theory such a discover covery would furnish a substantial basis for the legend of the lost atlantis and the theory invests those wonderful ruins with it a new interest for the antiquarians |