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 Atlan’tic Ocean.Atlas. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Atlant’is.
 
A mythic island which contained the Elysian Fields.   1
   The New Atlantis. An island imagined by Lord Bacon, where was established a philosophical commonwealth bent on the cultivation of the natural sciences. (See UTOPIA, CITY OF THE SUN.)   2
 


 Atlan’tic Ocean.Atlas. 

 
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