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Atlantis - Description of the island.
Plato’s account.
Plato gives us a surprisingly detailed account of Atlantis, its main geographical features as well as its principal produce. The following is from his account in the Critias.
Flat Plain.
To begin with the region as a whole was said to be high above the level of the sea from which it rose precipitously; the city was surrounded by a uniformly flat plain which was in turn enclosed by mountains which came right down to the sea. This plain was rectangular in shape, measuring three thousand stades in length and at its midpoint two thousand stades in breadth from the coast. This whole area of the coast faced south and was sheltered from the north winds.
Beautiful mountains.
The mountains which surrounded it were celebrated as being more numerous, higher and more beautiful than any which exist today; and in them were numerous villages and a wealthy population as well as rivers and lakes and meadows, which provided ample pasture for all kinds of domesticated and wild animals., and a plentiful variety of woodland to supply abundant timber for every kind of manufacture.
Amazing feature.
Over a long period of time the work of a number of kings had effected certain modifications in their natural features of the plain. It was naturally a long regular rectangle; and any defects in its shape were corrected by means of a ditch dug around it. The depth and breadth and length of this may sound incredible for an artificial structure when compared with others of a similar kind, but I must give them as I heard them. The depth was a hundred feet, the width a stade, and the length since it was dug right round the plain was ten thousand stades.
Irrigation.
The rivers which flowed down from the mountains emptied in to it, and it made a complete circuit of the plain., running around to the city from both directions, and there discharging into the sea. Channels about a hundred feet broad were cut from the ditch’s landward limb straight across the plain, at a distance of a hundred stades from each other, till they ran into it on its seaward side.
They cut channels between them and also to the city, and used the whole complex to float timber down from the mountains and transport seasonal produce by boat, They had two harvests a years, a winter one for which they relied on rainfall and a summer one for which the channels fed by the rivers provided irrigation.”
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