Earthquakes.— Plato in the Timmceus, speaks of a vast island, larger than Lybia and Asia combined, that nine thousand year before his time, had its kings, priests, soldiers, altars, guardian gods, and goddesses." Was thickly-peopled, isle or more properly continent, owing to an earthquake or some other violent concussion of nature, sunk in a single night into the ocean and dissappeared for ever.
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 146, 28 June 1870, Page 2
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63Untitled Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 146, 28 June 1870, Page 2
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