LEMURIA: HOME OF THE FIRST TYPE OF MAN, THE NEGROID (Shaded areas on map are above ground Lemuria) Lemuria, the third continent, embraced large areas in the Indian and Pacific oceans, and also portions of what is now Africa. It projected round South Africa into the North Atlantic (SD 2:781fn), and stretched up to the northern polar regions; it included Sweden and Norway, and also Asia, which was ‘a kind of broken prolongation’ of it (SD 2:769fn). Australia is the largest relic of Lemuria (SD 2:314), and other fragments are the many islands in the Pacific; it also included a large portion of California (SD 2:7, 328, 788). Lemuria-Atlantis therefore had both northern and southern divisions: the hyperborean and equatorial lands respectively (SD 2:371fn). As regards southern Lemuria: It covered the whole area of space from the foot of the Himalayas, which separated it from the inland sea rolling its waves over what is now Tibet, Mongolia, and the great desert of Schamo (Gobi); from Chittagong, westward to Hardwar, and eastward to Assam. From thence, it stretched South across what is known to us as Southern India, Ceylon, and Sumatra; then embracing on its way, as we go South, Madagascar on its right hand and Australia and Tasmania on its left, it ran down to within a few degrees of the Antarctic Circle; when, from Australia, an inland region on the Mother Continent in those ages, it extended far into the Pacific Ocean, not only beyond Rapa-nui (Teapy, or Easter Island) which now lies in latitude 26 S., longitude 110 W. . . . This statement seems corroborated by Science, – even if only partially; as, when discussing continental trends, and showing the infra-Arctic masses trending generally with the Meridian, several ancient continents are generally mentioned, though inferentially. Among such the ‘Mascarene continent,’ which included Madagascar, stretching north and south, is spoken of, and the existence of another ancient continent running ‘from Spitzbergen to the Straits of Dover, while most of the other parts of Europe were sea bottom,’ is taught. (SD 2:323-4)
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