1955 ends
Capt. Robson's Discovery, newspaper New Orleans Picayune,
contributed by Arthur Louis Joquel II
( from The Odebolt Reporter, Odebolt,
"Yesterday the British steamship Jesmond, Capt.
Robson, arrived at this port from
Capt. Robson would have continued this investigation, but
as the aspect of the weather became less favorable, and he could not afford to
spend more time at the island, he sailed for this port. He considers that the
new island was raised from the sea by volcanic action, and that the fish were
killed by the poisonous gases from the volcano. The captain thinks that the new
land is a section of the immense ridge known to exist in the Atlantic, and of
which the
Webmaster Note- The location would be a deadline south of
Tereceira Island in the Azores, while be a deadline south of the Canary Islands
and more from the coast of North West Africa being 200 miles outward, but it
must be noted he still journeyed at night after the first dead fish incident
which might have been another 100 miles. In all the site maybe between 200-400
miles out. The speed of the ship would have to be taken into account in its
average. This would fall in the location of where he claimed to have seen the
island. In the 1890's while laying the grounds for a transatlantic cable a ship
came upon land that had rose from the ocean bottom more than 200 feet, this was
to the north I recollect above the Azores. It would seem this story is
plausible in light of that minor fact of underwater activity at that time. It
would be interesting if the British Museum has any word on those lost
artifacts? The fact that the stone sarcophagus exists does not reveal an age,
for the oldest we know of is about 7,000-8,000 years ago.
A conservative point:
Stone coffin-1,200 A.D.-6,000 B.C.
Bronze Sword-present-4,000 B.C.
Arrow heads-1800's A.D.-15,000 B.C.
Vases large mouthed and with glyphs 1,300 A.D.-8,000 B.C.
Rings- present -15,000 B.C. bone
Hammer-1800's A.D.-15,000 B.C.
Dates of youngest to oldest origin presently
known-6,000-7,200-9,300-17,000
The median is 11,000 years or 11,500 B.C. that the
artifacts at earliest might have existed,
The Bronze sword cuts this figure in half to 5,750 B.C.,
and the fact the arrow heads are jagged and blunted shows possibility of an
older yet age. The conclusion, there seems to be a discrepancy in the age of
objects presented, as if the land had been above water at a more recent period
say up to 1,200 B.C. in which case we could halve the median of this to be
2,275 + 1,200= 3,475 B.C. which would be when this island was at least above
water. If we were to be more conservative and half this figure it would be
about 1,145+ 1,200=2,345 B.C. which falls close to a date when Pepi the II was
King in the 6th Dynasty. This would also explain some of the
practices of objects found, and that Pepi did have excursions of his fleet in
Spain. The description also corresponds to a region French Writers thought to
be the Isle of the Amazons, and may be the Isle of the Serpent noted by the
Egyptians that disappeared before 2,200 B.C.. If this was not a forgery
statement by Capt. Robson (note came from Sicily, Italy -Objects brought?). We
then take the presents of bronze swords to be not from a lost Phoenician ship,
or thrown over board, would push our notion of Bronze, like the Otze Man with
his copper chisel, or the Red Paint People's Massachusetts Man found with his
copper ax at 5,400 B.C. in N. America to be an ancient art. Capt. Robson is not
one we would believe knew Greek mythology in a great extent to know the
beginnings of bronze or its associations with the Amazons. So, we are left with
a peculiar history unsolved.
Pushing the Threshold of History Back, By Egerton Sykes
For many years the orthodox minded have criticized the
exponents of the theory of Atlantis, by saying that there are no historical
traces of civilization earlier than that of Mesopotamia, which was too late to
have any bearing on the matter.
However, Mr. Zaki Saad, the Director of Excavations for the
Egyptian Government, who has been working at Heluan near Cairo on a site for
the last seven years, has unearthed proof that the 1st Dynasty of
Egypt had been preceded by at least 1,000 years of stable and civilized
government. Not only this but he has also found graves dating back to at least
7,500 years ago, the final dates presumably awaiting checking by the radio
active carbon process. The official publication of these papers will be made in
the not too distant future.
The effect of these discoveries will be to narrow
considerably the gap separating the date of the termination of the Atlantean
culture and that of the beginning of its first known successor.
The Date
of the Submersion of Poseidonia, By Prof. M. Kamionski (Prof. Astronomy at U.
of Krakow) 1956 begins