tled in
Phrygia and Mauritania; and, like the Colchians, were of the family of Ham.
They had great experience in sea affairs: and the poet tells us, that they
knew all the soundings in the great deep.

[Greek: Echei de te Kionas autos]
[Greek: Makras, hai Gaien te kai Ouranon amphis echousin.]

_They had also long pillars, or obelisks, which referred to the sea; and
upon which was delineated the whole system both of heaven and earth_;
[Greek: amphis], _all around, both on the front of the obelisk, and on the
other sides_. [Greek: Kiones Kosmou] were certainly maps, and histories of
the universe; in the knowledge of which the Atlantians seem to have
instructed their brethren the Herculeans. The Grecians, in their accounts,
by putting one person for a people, have rendered the history obscure;
which otherwise would be very intelligible. There is a passage in Eusebius,
which may be rendered very plain, and to the purpose, if we make use of the
clue above-mentioned. [208][Greek: Herodotos de legei ton Eraklea mantin
kai phusikon genomenon para Atlantos tou Barbarou tou Phrugos diadechesthai
tas tou Kosmou Kionas.] This may be paraphrased in the following manner;
and with such latitude will be found perfectly consonant to the truth. _The
Herculeans were a people much given to divination, and to the study of
nature. Great part of their knowledge they are thought to have had
transmitted to them from those Atlantians, who settled in Phrygia,
especially the history of the earth and heavens; for all such knowledge the
Atlantians had of old consigned to pillars and obelisks in that country:
and from them it was derived to the Herculeans, or Heraclidae, of Greece._
The Atlantians were esteemed by the Grecians as barbarous: but they were in
reality of the same family. Their chief ancestor was the father of the
Peleiadae, or Ionim; of whom I shall hereafter have much to say: and was the
supposed brother of Saturn. The Hellenes, though they did not always allow
it, were undoubtedly of his race. This may be proved from Diodorus Siculus,
who gives this curious history of the Peleiadae, his offspring. [209][Greek:
Tautas de migeisas tois euphuestatois Herosi kai Theois archegous
katastenai tou pleistou genous ton anthropon, tekousas tous di' areten
Theous kai Heroas onomasthentas.--Parapleseos de kai tas allas Atlantidas
gennesai paidas epiphaneis, hon tous men ethnon, tous de poleon genesthai
ktistas; dioper ou monon