fifty bronze swords have been found in Denmark, and that the Dublin
Museum contains twelve hundred and eighty-three bronze weapons found in
Ireland; "while," he says, "I have only been able to hear of six bronze
swords in all Italy." This state of things is inexplicable unless we
suppose that Ireland and Denmark received their bronze implements
directly from some maritime nation whose site was practically as near
their shores as it was to the shores of the Mediterranean. We have but
to look at our map on page 43, ante, to see that Atlantis was
considerably nearer to Ireland than it was to Italy.

The striking resemblance between the bronze implements found in the
different portions of Europe is another proof that they were derived
from one and the same source-from some great mercantile people who
carried on their commerce at the same time with Denmark, Norway,
Ireland, Spain, Greece, Italy, Egypt, Switzerland, and Hungary. Mr.
Wright ("Essays on Archaeology," p. 120) says, "Whenever we find the
bronze swords or celts,

VASES FROM MOUNDS IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

whether in Ireland, in the far west, in Scotland, in distant
Scandinavia, in Germany, or still farther east, in the Sclavonic
countries, they are the same--not similar in character, but identical."
Says Sir John Lubbock ("Prehistoric Times," p. 59), "Not only are the
several varieties of celts found throughout Europe alike, but some of
the swords, knives, daggers, etc., are so similar that they seem as if
they must have been cast by the same maker."

What race was there, other than the people of Atlantis, that existed
before the Iron Age-before the Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and