Chapter 956
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Wilford makes many mistakes. He identifies, for instance, Shveta-dvîpa, the White Island, the “island in the northern part of Toyambhudi,” with England, and then tries to identify it with Atala. (a nether region) and Atlantis. Now the Shveta-dvîpa is the abode of Vishnu (exoterically), and Atala is a hell. He also places it in the Euxine or Ikshu (Black) Sea, and then seems to connect it, in another place, with Africa and Atlas.