animals or to us. Gradually we became accustomed to their noisy visitations and paid them no heed.     “‘When the first rays of the rising sun came a great change fell on the valley. The trees began to turn green and the flowers turned from a monotonous white to their former brilliant colors. And the dismal phantoms seemed to have vanished without leaving any trace that they had been there. Under the cheering influence of the Summer sun we began to think that perhaps our eyes had deceived us and that what we had thought phantoms were only clouds of steam from the mountains to which the ghastly glow of the aurora borealis gave a supernatural aspect. And their groaning—might it not have been the rumble of the smoking mountains which had so alarmed us before entering the valley? Soon after this we left the beautiful country and have never been able to locate it again.’     “This remarkable story told me by a nomadic Yakut of Siberia gives an idea of the strange character of the newly discovered continent.     “That the continent contains a broad valley which is heated by the volcanic energy of the earth and protected by high rocky mountains from the cold Winds is plausible. Factors now unknown to us may be the means of maintaining a highly developed animal and vegetable life throughout the dark Winter without any direct influence of the sun and in a region which is completely surrounded by ice and snow. At any rate I believe that our location of this new continent will prove one of the most important scientific discoveries of the century.” From—The Times Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 09 Nov. 1913. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.