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years, and outm fdl h its present
depths, It can be traced to a depth of
and the channel extends to
10,000 feet. It is his idea that from
about 20,000 - 5,000 ft., after the
Atlantic Ocean was formed 10,000
feet or even more, and during this time
he Congo built its present main course
(possibly to flood north) and channel
down to its then low sea level. There
[illegible]
line at this time great islands existed
in the Atlantic (= Atlantis).
Veatoh holds firm to his con-
dusion based on the topographic form
of N.Africa and the Atlantic bottom off
to the west of the Congo) that the con-
tinents on either side of the Atlantic
did all rise and subside, but that they
were a great change of sea level. That
the Atlantic from Brazil south to
the end of Africa subsided more