The Mediterranean¹ Sea, a body of water between Europe and Africa, nearly 2,000 miles in length, surrounded with most of the noted² cities of antiquity³, has remained during these thousands of years in an unchanged condition from tides, inundations, or any other disturbing causes. Into this sea through the Strait of Gibraltar has been flowing all this time from the Atlantic Ocean, a river 15 miles wide with an average depth of one and one-fourth miles. This river is reported to have so strong a current that a sailing vessel⁴ has difficulty of coming out against it without the help of a favorable east wind. This is a sufficient flow of water to fill the basin of the sea almost yearly, besides the help of all the rivers of Southern Europe and Northern Africa. The reason of no change is given for its location, where evaporation⁵ carr............