Caleb Jones

In this mountain there dwelt one of the earth-born primeval men of that country, whose name was Evanor, and he had a wife named Leucippe, and they had an only daughter whose name was Cleoto.

The Median had already reached womanhood when her father and mother died.

Poseidon fell in love with her and had an intercourse with her, and breaking the ground, enclosed the hill in which she dwelt all around, making alternate zones of sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another.

And there were two of land and three of water, which he turned as with a lathe, each having its circumference equidistant every way from the center, so that no man could get to the island, for ships and voyages were not as of yet."

He also begat and brought up five pairs of twin male children, and dividing up the island of Atlantis into ten portions, he gave to the firstborn of the eldest pair his mother's dwelling and the surrounding allotment, which was the largest and best, and made him king over the rest.

The others he made princes, and gave them rule over many men in a large territory.

And he named them all the eldest, who was the first king, Atlas, and after him the whole island and the ocean were called the Atlantic.

That's where we get the name of the Atlantic.

And the eldest of the children was the first king, his name was Atlas, and we also have, importantly, to his twin brother, who was born first after him, obtained as his lot the extremity of the island towards the Pillars of Hercules, facing the country which is now called the region of Gades in that part of the world.

And that is western Spain, so we have a location there.

So I want to move on, and now Atlas had numerous and honorable family and they retained the kingdom, the eldest son handing it down to his eldest for many generations.

They had such an amount of wealth as was never before possessed by kings and potentates and not likely ever to be possessed again.

They were furnished with everything which they needed, both in the city and country, for because of the greatness of their empire, many things were brought to them from foreign countries.

And we also have, so I've described the city.

Then he wants to go to the rest of the land.

It was a lofty land.

It's surrounded by mountains.

And the country immediately about the surrounding city was a level plain.

But beyond that was surrounded by mountains, which descended towards the sea.

It was smooth and even of an oblong shape, extending in one direction 3,000 stadia.