and had separate words for each of these relationships, which we are only able to express by adding the words “in-law.”  They recognized also the condition of widows, or “the husbandless.”  They lived in an organized society, governed by a king.  They possessed houses with doors and solid walls.  They had wagons and carriages.  They possessed family names.  They dwelt in towns and cities, on highways.  They were not hunters or nomads.  They were a peaceful people; the warlike words in the different Aryan languages cannot be traced back to this original race.  They lived in a country having few wild beasts; the only wild animals whose names can be assigned to this parent stock being the bear, the wolf, and the serpent.  The name of the elephant, “the beast with a hand,” occurs only twice in the “Rig-Veda;” a singular omission if the Aryans were from time immemorial an Asiatic race; and “when it does occur, it is in such a way as to show that he was still an object of wonder and terror to them.” (Whitney’s “Oriental and Linguistic Studies,” p. 26.) They possessed nearly all the domestic animals we now have—­the ox and the cow, the horse, the dog, the sheep, the goat, the hog, the donkey, and the goose.  They divided the year into twelve months.  They were farmers; they used the plough; their name as a race (Aryan) was derived from it; they were, par excellence, ploughmen; they raised various kinds of grain, including flax, barley, hemp, and wheat; they had mills and millers, and ground their corn.  The presence of millers shows that they had proceeded beyond the primitive condition where each family ground its corn in its own mill.  They used fire, and cooked and baked their food; they wove cloth and wore clothing; they spun wool; they possessed the different metals, even iron:  they had gold.  The word for “water” also meant “salt made from water,” from which it might be inferred that the water with which they were familiar was saltwater.  It is evident they manufactured salt by evaporating salt water.  They possessed boats and ships.  They had progressed so far as to perfect “a decimal system of enumeration, in itself,” says Max Mueller, “one of the most marvellous achievements of the human mind, based on an abstract conception of quantity, regulated by a philosophical classification, and yet conceived, nurtured, and finished before the soil of Europe was trodden by Greek, Roman, Slav, or Teuton.”

AncientEgyptian plough

And herein we find another evidence of relationship between the Aryans and the people of Atlantis.  Although Plato does not tell us that the Atlanteans possessed the decimal system of numeration, nevertheless there are many things in his narrative which point to that conclusion “There were ten kings ruling over ten provinces; the whole country was divided into military districts or squares ten stadia each way; the total force of chariots was ten thousand; the great ditch or canal was one hundred feet deep