W. Scott-Elliot’s The Lost Lemuria argues that a great southern continent, the Lemuria already named by Sclater, was the home of the Third Root Race, and that two archaic maps give its outline. At its greatest extent he has it nearly girdling the globe, from the Cape Verd Islands off Sierra Leone through Africa, Australia, and the Society Islands, to a Pacific land that included Cape Horn and parts of Patagonia. He will not date Lemuria in years. He places the older map from the Permian into the Jurassic, and the later map from the Cretaceous into the Eocene, and he says the continent was dismembered before the Eocene.
The same maps, he says, show the nucleus of Atlantis as an island west of Spain, later the mountainous core of Atlantis, of Ruta and Daitya, and of Poseidonis, whose final submergence he dates 9564 B.C. Lemuria itself, unlike Atlantis, perished by volcano and fire. He segregates the Fourth Root Race from the seventh Lemurian sub-race on land he places at the site of Ashantee and Western Nigeria. Wheat and the bee, he says, were brought from Venus.