Note 3 — VIII. PAGAN INITIATIONS AND THE SECOND BIRTH
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(3) E. J. Payne, History of the New World called America (vol. i, p. 93) says: “It is certain that Europe and America once formed a single continent,” but inroads of the sea “left a vast island or peninsula stretching from Iceland to the Azores—which gradually disappeared.” Also he speaks (i. 93) of the “Miocene Bridge” between Siberia and the New World.