Some writers have thought it was in Sweden, others in Spitzbergen,others in Africa, in Palestine, in America. Since the depth of theAtlantic has been more thoroughly sounded, a few writers have maintainedthat the inequalities of its floor show some traces of the submergedAtlantis, but the general opinion of men of science is quite the otherway. The visible Atlantic islands are all, or almost all, they say, ofvolcanic origin; and though there are ridges in the bottom of the ocean,they do not connect the continents.At any rate, this was the original story of Atlantis, and the legendswhich follow in these pages have doubtless all grown, more or less, out ofthis first tale which Socrates told.IITALIESSIN OF THE RADIANT BROWIn times past there were enchanted islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off thecoast of Wales, and even now the fishermen sometimes think they see them.On one of these there lived a man named Tegid Voel and his wife calledCardiwen. They had a son, the ugliest boy in the world, and Cardiwenformed a plan to make him more attractive by teaching him all possiblewisdom. She was a great magician and resolved to boil a large caldron fullof knowledge for her son, so that he might know all things and be able topredict all that was to happen. Then she thought people would value him inspite of his ugliness.
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