In Chapter One I’d said that the sunken ruins in the Caribbean include domes.  This type of structure features quite strongly in connection with Atlantis.  According to Hope, in The Ancient Wisdom of Atlantis, the circle defined the character of both cities and dwellings from the Age of Virgo [Hope: c.12000-c.10000 BC;  Hancock: 13130-10970 BC] to the “very latter days”, and beyond.  The reason for the use of this shape, says Hope, was that angles and corners were avoided, being deemed ”inharmonious to  the human spirit”.  [Plato’s ringed Royal City, Hope’s Chalidocean,
was planned and/or laid out at that time].  Yet  I note Hope, in saying this, actually contradicted herself, when she wrote later in the book that the

“Great High Temple in Chalidocean...was octagonal in shape,...surmounted by an equidistant cross, as were many of the lesser temples around the country”.

This aside, though, W. Scott-Elliott, in The Story of Atlantis [1894], also showed us the importance of  the circle on Atlantis. It seems the inhabitants built stone circles, confirmation of which may’ve been discovered during the 1970s Poseidia expeditions at Bimini [see Chapter Two].  If so, then the influence of ‘Atlantean survivors’ could be traced in ancient religious and domestic architecture.  Echoes might be found in

1)  Neolithic ring-like structures, such as Stonehenge [Wiltshire, England: c.3100-c.1550 BC], and the Miami Circle [probably Tequesta].  While former’s function has been hotly debated for centuries, the latter was, according to a ‘Horizon’ programme [first shown here in 2001], probably a tribal “meeting house”.  

2)  Bronze Age [in Britain c.1900 BC] and Iron Age [in Europe c.1200 BC] round houses.

3)  Structures in the Greek temples of  Zeus and Hera at Olympia [5th century BC],  and Apollo at Delphi.

4)  Roman buildings, such as the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, [1st century BC],  and the Colosseum [Vespasian-Titus: 70-82 AD] and the Pantheon [Hadrian: 120-124 AD], both in Rome.

5)  El Caracol [Toltec or Mayan: 10th century AD?], Chichen Itza, Mexico.  

In the middle of the Psidonian Palace was the Council building, which stood on a low cruciform plaform with steps at the end of each ‘arm’.   Its construction [A] was similar  to the Temple of Vesta: a round chamber encircled by a colonnaded peristyle.  [The influence of A can be seen in the cupolas of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and the Capitol in Washington.]  The Psidonian structure was covered by a dome,  which, as in the Pantheon, had a central opening occulus] to light the chamber.  The seating, as in amphitheatres, was tiered, and ran around the circuference.  The central space was an ‘arena’ in the political sense.  From there, as in the Roman Senate, members ‘addressed the House’.  The modern equivalent could be the ‘dispatch box’ in the House of Commons.  In place of the Speaker’s Chair was a throne where the King [or his representative in Council] sat, like Arthur at the Round Table [see Chapter Eight].
In this sunken area, with a similar ‘star’ design to the Device Temple Observatory’s [see Chapter Eight] stood the Imager [C},  which could be seen as an ‘Atlantean’ CD or DVD player.  A gold disc, engraved with symbols in concentric rings, was inserted into a slot, and, provided you knew the right ‘code’, the contents could be read or viewed.  Or else ‘projected’ into the room like a 3D hologram.  
Prior to this, a fountain in a pool occupied the space.  Round the top four gilded ‘angels’, each facing an entrance [aligned to the cardinal points] stood holding hands, wingtips touching.  [The  South Entrance had a guarded corridor linked to the Palace for the use of the Royal Family.]  In the centre a fifth figure held aloft a caduceus towards the occulus.  Between the serpent’s heads a red crystal pulsated [see Chapter Eleven].      
In contrast to Hope, W. Scott-Elliot, in The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria [1925], wrote that, on Atlantis, “more affluent residences” were built of four blocks round a courtyard.  These dwellings

      

“either had corner turrets or towers rising from the middle of the blocks.  Cupolas surmounting the towers were used as observatories...”

“a tower, maybe twelve or thirteen stories high.  It had a wide base with three fins that arched back [buttresses?] to a large top section with a glass or crystal dome”.

“250 miles southwest of the Azores...researching a 90--kilometer ledge with a central temple  supported by three stands [rows] of nine pillars about 3 feet in diameter supporting a flat stone roof about 20 feet wide and 30 feet long. There are the remains of five circular canals [Plato’s Royal City had three water rings] and bridges, plus four rings of structures [including the acropolis, Plato’s had three] like the temple in between.  it is roughly 2,800 feet deep in the Mid-Atlantic Trench... .”

This is a crucical discovery, for it verifies the sighting of a mysterious island in 1882. In March of that year Captain Robson and the crew of encountered a barren and uncharted [it was open sea several thousand feet deep on maps]. The bearings - 31o 25’N, 28o 40’W - place it at about the location of Zelintsky’s city. Once in New Orleans, their destination, a sailor told the Times Picayne they’d seen the “crumbling remains” of “massive walls”. The artefacts found included “bronze swords, rings, mallets”, carvings of heads and animals, skeletal remains in urns, and even a mummy in a stone sarcophagus!
Just a month later, Captain James Newdick and the crew of the Westbourne saw the same island - at bearings 25o 30’N, 24oW. Their story appeared in the New York Post. The two sets of co-ordinates hint at a sizeable landmass, which could only have surfaced as the result of major seismic activity. In fact, the sailor from the SS Jesmond described a plateau of smoking volcanoes several miles from their landing point, and that the ground was riven by lethal chasms. The ground and objects were encrusted with volcanic deposits. In both instances there were mudbanks and vast shoals of dead fish.