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    This document provides an introductory chapter about writing a history of Atlantis. It explains that documenting the history of Atlantis presents unique challenges because the land itself can no longer be examined, as it sunk into the sea. While some documentation might still exist from other cultures that were influenced by Atlantis, reconstructing its civilization, architecture, and chronicles would be an immense challenge with little direct evidence remaining from Atlantis itself. The introduction sets up the difficulty of documenting a lost civilization based primarily on secondary sources rather than primary examination of its ruins and artifacts.

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    This document provides an introductory chapter about writing a history of Atlantis. It explains that documenting the history of Atlantis presents unique challenges because the land itself can no longer be examined, as it sunk into the sea. While some documentation might still exist from other cultures that were influenced by Atlantis, reconstructing its civilization, architecture, and chronicles would be an immense challenge with little direct evidence remaining from Atlantis itself. The introduction sets up the difficulty of documenting a lost civilization based primarily on secondary sources rather than primary examination of its ruins and artifacts.

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    This document provides an introductory chapter about writing a history of Atlantis. It explains that documenting the history of Atlantis presents unique challenges because the land itself can no longer be examined, as it sunk into the sea. While some documentation might still exist from other cultures that were influenced by Atlantis, reconstructing its civilization, architecture, and chronicles would be an immense challenge with little direct evidence remaining from Atlantis itself. The introduction sets up the difficulty of documenting a lost civilization based primarily on secondary sources rather than primary examination of its ruins and artifacts.

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    THE

    HISTORY OF ATLANTIS
    CHAPTER I
    INTRODUCTORY
    A HISTORY OF ATLANTIS must differ from all other his
    "tories, for the fundamental reason that it seeks to record the ch ron icles of a
    country the soil of \vhich is no longer available for examination to the
    archreologist. If, through some cataclysm of natu re, the Italian peninsu la had
    been submerged in the green \Va ters of the Mediterranean at a period subsequent to
    the fall of Rome, \Ve \vou ld still have been in possession of mu ch documentary
    eviden ce concern ing the gro\vtb and ascent of the Roman Empire. At the same time,
    the soil upon \Vh ich that empire flour ished , the ponderable remains of its
    civilisation and its architectu re, \Vou ld have been for ever lost to us save as
    regards their colon ial manifestations. We should, in a great measure, have been
    forced to glean our ideas of Latin pre-emin ence from those institution s \vh ich
    it founded in other lands, and from those traditions of it"
    \Vhich remained at the era of its disappearance among the unlettered nations
    surrounding it.
    But great as \Vould be the difficulties attending
    "such an enterprise, these'vou ld, indeed, be negligible & t"
    \vhen compared \Vith the task of groping through the mists of the ages in quest of
    the outlines of chronicle and event \Vhich tell of a civilisation plunged into
    the
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