Excerpt from Adventures of Early Discoverers Many years ago, thousands of years ago, the people of Europe used to talk about an island which they called Atlantis. They said this island lay far to the west, in the Atlantic Ocean. And, the truth is, that ocean was so named for this island. Atlantis was said to be a most lovely island, with high mountains, wide rivers, and multitudes of singing birds. Flowers grew everywhere, and the weather was always fair. Diamonds and other precious gems could be picked up anywhere about ...
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Excerpt from Adventures of Early Discoverers Many years ago, thousands of years ago, the people of Europe used to talk about an island which they called Atlantis. They said this island lay far to the west, in the Atlantic Ocean. And, the truth is, that ocean was so named for this island. Atlantis was said to be a most lovely island, with high mountains, wide rivers, and multitudes of singing birds. Flowers grew everywhere, and the weather was always fair. Diamonds and other precious gems could be picked up anywhere about the island, and Neptune, the sea-god, had a most beautiful palace right in the centre of it. Best of all, the people who lived there were always good and happy. But I never heard of anybody who ever really saw this island. Sometimes, people, as they stood On the western shores of Europe, thought they saw it. It lay along the horizon quite plainly, they thought. But it always went away again. And sometimes the sailors thought they saw it too; but when they turned their boats toward it, 10! It was gone. And this is the way it played hide-and-seek, and nobody ever caught it. There was a good man who lived about a thousand years be fore. Columbus, a man so good he was called Saint Brandon. He was always doing good to' people. And when he heard about Atlantis, he wanted to go there and do good to the people. So he sailed with another good man, Saint Malo. But of course, he did not find Atlantis, though he found another island which was ever after called by his name - the island of Saint Brandon. But the droll thing is that nobody could ever after find that island of Saint Brandon again. A great many people have tried to find it. Even as late as 1721 a ship sailed from the Island of Teneriffe in search of it. For the people of the Canary Islands fancied they saw it, some times, about a hundred miles to the west. And, it is said, that even to this day, they sometimes think they see its mountain-tops above the At lantic waves. And this is the second hide-and-seek Island. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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