Message #160312

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FACTS AND LEGENDS As TO SUBMERGENCES IN HISTORIC TIMES

Westropp has made an interesting and important disclosure of
the legends of submerged lands with villages, churches, etc., all
around the coasts of Ireland. In some instances they are believed
to be magically visible again above the surface in certain condi-
tions; in others the spires and walls of a fine city may at times, it is
thought, be still seen through clear water. Nearly, if not quite,
every one of them coincides with a shoal or bank of no great
depth, the upjutting teeth of rocks, or a barren fragmentary islet
vestiges perhaps of something more conspicuous, extended, and
alluring. Westropp says: "When we examine the sea bed, we see