Perhaps it ran out over what is now the Sahara, the great desert of sand, for, that was a sea-bottom not long ago.
But then, how was this land of Atlantis joined to the Cape of Good Hope?
I cannot say how, or when either.

But this is plain: the place in the world where the most beautiful heaths grow is the Cape of Good Hope?
You know I showed you Cape heaths once at the nursery gardener's at home.
Oh yes, pink, and yellow, and white; so much larger than ours.
Then it seems (I only say it seems) as if there must have been some land once to the westward, from which the different sorts of heath spread south-eastward to the Cape, and north-eastward into Europe.

And that they came north-eastward into Europe seems certain; for there are no heaths in America or Asia.
But how north-eastward?
Think.

Stand with your face to the south and think.

If a thing comes from the south-west--from there, it must go to the north-east-towards there.