The reader will wonder what Colonel Braghine has to say of the theory that Europe, Aftiea and the Americas at one remote time were one continent but drifted apart by a slow geological process, the theory frst advanced "by the Austrian xeoloxist Dr. Alfred Wegener, based fon the undoubted fact that these continent could easily be Mtted into each other in the manner of jigsaw puzzle. Wegener's theory allows for 8 northward movement of Greenland from a more southern position, which might account for the tradition of Atlantis, "Colonel " Braghine, "while hot, rejecting the theory of a gentiine cataclysm.
'These then, and many other con-lectures may' be found in Colonel Br interesting, book. For there is no claim on his part that these things are more than con} though they are to his mind reasonable conjecture. After reading his book one can at feast agree with after 2,000 remains a Cod and "The shores of Spain and Portugal, Colonel Braghine asserts, descend a'mile half below sea level, ind mer sea Tevel of that distance below the present. Likewise the area of Lake Titicaca, in South America, was once two miles higher than at present. The animal life of the Azores, he heed, and wish not the misanthrope, for Mi-conditioned Jot is calamity sult cient. What need is there of she. ing vill-will to him, who has "such an' enemy close at his beels?—Tur Guustax oF Sat.
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