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Plato's Timæus," says: "The famous Atlantis exists no longer,
but we can hardly doubt that it did once, for Marcellus, who
wrote a history of Ethiopian affairs, says that such and so
great an island once existed, and that it is evidenced by those
who composed histories relative to the external sea, for they
relate that in this time there were seven islands in the
Atlantic sea sacred to Proserpine; and, besides these, three of
immense magnitude, sacred to Pluto, Jupiter, and Neptune; and,
besides this, the inhabitants of the last island (Poseidonis)
preserve the memory of the prodigious magnitude of the Atlantic
island as related by their ancestors, and of its governing for
many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea. From this isle
one may pass to other large islands beyond, which are not far
from the firm land near which is the true sea." It is well to
notice that, like all the Maya authors who have described the
awful cataclysms that caused th