# Atlantis... *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 06 Oct 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Tony A. West *06 Oct 1999, 12:01* Hi all, just came across a fascinating article in the Japan Times yesterday. It seems an English cartographer is claiming he has found Atlantis, but at an area called La Paz, 3,600 meters high, in Bolivia. The area is called the "altiplano," and is the world's largest plain, taking up more than 10% of Bolivia. Why am I posting this here? Well, apparently Plato, in his references to Atlantis, described walls that were plated with gold, silver, bronze, and, yes, "orichalcum," a natural alloy of gold and copper found only in the Andes. Made me smile, as of course Wolfe and the currency of Urth instantly came to mind, and I didn't find anything in Lexicon Urthus. Just one of those things that made me smile at the never-ending string of surprises and ever-unfolding layers of information woven so skillfully by Wolfe into the BOTNS. Did you all get anything about this in the West? Cheers all, Tony West Wadomari Board of Education ---