canal" surrounding the entire capitol. From the belt canal, other canals were cut between the mountains, North, South, East and West, where the water found its way to the sea by four rivers, as shown upon the map.
These rivers were kept constantly supplied with water by the copious rain-fall attracted by the mountain group about the capitol, and the good people residing in the four quarters of the island of Atlantis, used the four rivers as highways to their capitol and to transport their products thither.
Reader, Atlantis was the only place on this earth where four rivers flowed from one source. The only place where four Kings reigned in one capitol. The "Garden of Atlantis," as the island was called, for the inhabitants took rich earth and covered the rock many feet deep therewith, was planted with every tree and fruit to delight the palate or the eye of man.
In the midst of this garden stood the palace of the Kings, and the grand Temple of Wisdom, the Temple of her Priesthood, where the "Religion of the Stars" was the only religion known or practiced. This temple was the "tree of knowledge," against which the champions of revealed religion have cast their church thunderbolts and anathemas for ages and ages. "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," is a formula that the church endeavored for ages and ages to make true. Thousands and millions of poor devoted followers of the truth who have ventured to taste the "forbidden fruit" have perished for it.
The first "Garden of Eden" was at the North Pole; the
