After  diia  fable,  the  philosopher  Thnaus,  of  Loei^  de-
velops bis  System  concefning  God,  the  origin  ssd
natiire  of  the  world,  men,  and  animate.  Tbtoorii  tba
whole  of  thia  exposition  there  nrevaila  the  nand  toes
ef  the  Pythagorean  school.  Plato  is  coanmenly  sep-
posed  to  hsve  followed,  in  the  compesititm  of  this  d^
logue,  the  work  attribated  lirthe  philosopher  ef  Lociv
which  M  atiU  poaaess.  — 14.  Kptfter,  #  '.ArJUnTosb
"  CrrfuU,  or  Us  AOaiUie?*  Tbw  dialogoe  is  a  con-
tinuation ^the  preceding.  CriUas  here  vivos  ra  de-
tail what  he  had  only  sketched  forUi  in  the  Tneu,
respecting  ao  islsnd  in  the  Atlantic  (tid.  AdanliaJ^  v-
habited  anciently  by  a  eiviUzed  and  coo^oerii^  laca^
and  which  had  been  ingulfed  by  the  see.  He  gives  h
account  of  the  laws,  manners,  and  inatftuions  of  'Om
people.  It  ia  easy  to  perceive  that  the  vkhole  ^  thh
redlal  is  a  mere  fiction,  a  species  of  poliUeal  raessaee,
by  which  Plato.wiahed  to  fm>ve  the  possibility  ef  s«:h
a  republic  being  established  aa  he  bdd  fnucd  in  hu
owit  imagination.  And  yet  it  is  more  thaa  psobsUa
that  the  ancienta  had  some  obecora  treditita  anxic
them  relative  to  the  exialene*  of  a  lane  eontsNt  te
the  we«t  of  die  Straita  of  Gibraltar,  ana  of  {his  we  find
traces  even  in  the  pegea  of  Strabo.— TW  QMh  ef
Plato  has  giv^n  rise  toTtrioua  hypotheses  and  lev  Bias,
and  the  writers  of  the  Isat  two  centnriea  have  teiy  ac-
tively exercised  their  pens  on  so  attractive  atDbjccL
Some  have  found  the  Atlantis  ef  Plato  in  PaleKiM.
others  in  India,  and  others, jwiin,  ia  the  Oaaacies  and
Azores.  (Consult  Fmi,  V^tiunie  der  ABem,  p.  8,
26. — LatrtiUe,  Memmra  tur  divert  mtjeUt  Ac,  p.
