Some enquiries concerning the first inhabitants, language, religion, learning and letters of Europe / By a member of the Society of Antiquaries in London [i.e. F. Wise].

  • Francis Wise
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1758
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    hiftory of the Gods; and that this country owed its de- f{tru@tion more to their priefts, than to the encroachments of the Sea.. I am therefore of opinion that the Atlantic Ifland, as it is called, was then and ftill is in being; tho’ I cannot entirely. agree with the learned (1) Olaus ‘Rud- beck, who from a laudable partiality to his native coun- try, has taken a great deal of pains to prove that Sweden was the place, I fo far agree with him, That the Atlan tians could not be inhabitants of Africa, notwith{tanding the names of the mountain, and of the fea that wafhes that coaft; nor yet can I think that they were of Europe ; but of Afia, and far remote from Scandinavia eaftward. The Atlantic fea might be denominated from a people, and that people from a man. Atlas is a Northern name; the firft, of whom we have any knowledge, was the fa mous Aftronomer, and (2) general of the Titan army a~ gainft Jupiter; the fame who is thought to have given name to the mountain. But (3) Apollodorus, correcting thofe authors who wrote before him concerning the Hef- perides, directs us to look for Atlas, not in Libya, but among the Hyperboreans: and (4).others, who place him not fo far North, allot him a feat on mount Caucafus, with his brother Prometheus. The Atlantides, or Atlan- tians, were his defcendants as all (5) authors are agreed ; (1) Vide Atlantica. Par. I. Cap. 7. (2) Atlanti autem, qui Dux eorum [Titanum] fuit, cali fornicem fuper bume- ros impofuit, quit adhuc dicitur celum Ju, uftinere. Hygin. Fab. CL. (3) Toure 3 iv, by) ds mes emo, by Mibiy, ae ott FE ASAawTos by TaeeCopéas. Bibl. Lib. II. c. 4. §. 10. p. 117. Ed. Gale. (4) ° ‘Arad piveren Baotheus wepres ty TH xarvudvn yuu Agradia® Ones 3 wel mo rAsyhulvoy Kenygorr o¢@. Dionyf. Halic. Ant. Rom. Lib. I. p. 49. (5) Diodorus Siculus, Lib. III. Apollodorus, Lib. Ill. c. 10. and
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