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"Funny to see stuff like that at this depth," Gamay said, with a shake of her head

Trout was staring out his view port "That's not all that's funny," he ht?"

Sandy steered the Alvin so the full force of the klieg lights was directed at the sea bottom

"It can't be!" she said, as if she had seen a McDonald's on a corner of the newly discovered undersea ht the submersible to within a few yards of the bottom Two lines of parallel tracks at least thirty feet apart led off into the darkness "Seems we're not the first visitors," Trout said

"It looks as if a giant bulldozer passed this way," Sandy said "But that's impossible" She paused, and then in a hushed tone, said, "Maybe this really is the lost city of Atlantis"

"Nice try, but these tracks look too recent," Paul said

The tracks went straight for a while, and then curved between ters that soared for nearly three hundred feet At several points along the way, they ca pins Other pillars had been ground to powder by giant treads Soh the new Lost City

"It looks like an undersea clear-cutting operation," Trout said

Gamay and Paul worked the video and still cameras to record the scene of destruction They were at least a half inal Lost City was like a pine woods compared to a redwood forest Some of the toere so tall that their summits were invisible Froae

"Thank goodness for those cameras," Sandy said "The folks on the surface would never believe e're seeing"

"I don't quite believe it myself," Trout said "I What was that}"

"I saw it, too," Ga shadow passed over us" "A whale?" Trout said "Not at this depth," Gamay replied

"What about a giant squid? I've heard they can dive deeper than whales"

"Oh, anything is possible in a place like this," Gamay said

Trout asked Sandy to put the vehicle into a slow spin