[419] Lyell, Elements of Geology (Lond., 1841), p. 141; and his Principles of Geology, 10th ed. Buffon dated the separation of the new and old world from the catastrophe of Atlantis. Epoques de la Nat., ed. Flourens, ix. 570.
[420] Quatres lettres sur la Méxique; Popul Vuh, p. xcix, and his Sources de l’histoire primitive du Méxique, section viii. pp. xxiv, xxxiii, xxxviii and ix, in his edition of Diego da Landa, Relation des choses de Yucatan (Paris, 1864). H. H. Bancroft, Nat. Races, iii. 112, 264, 480; v. 127, develops Brasseur’s theory. In his Hist. Nat. Civilisées he compares the condition of the Colhua kingdom of Xibalba with Atlantis, and finds striking similarities. Le Plongeon in his Sacred Mysteries (p. 92) accepts Brasseur’s theory.
[421] A. Retzius, Present state of Ethnology in relation to the form of the human skull (Smithsonian Report, 1859), p. 266. The resemblance is not indorsed by M. Verneau, who has lately made a detailed study of the aborigines of the Canaries.
[422] F. Unger, Die versunkene Insel Atlantis (Wien, 1860). Translated in the Journal of Botany (London), January, 1865. Asa Gray had already called attention to the remarkable resemblance between the flora of Japan and that of eastern North America, but had not found the invention of a Pacific continent preferable to the hypothesis of a progress of plants of the temperate zone round by Behring’s Strait (Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vi. 377). Unger’s theory has been also more or less urged in Heer’s Flora Tertiaria Helveticae (1854-58) and his Urwelt der Schweitz (1865), and by Otto Ule in his Die Erde (1874), i. 27.
[423] Sitzungsberichte der Math. Phys. Classe d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. at Vienna, lvii. (1868) p. 12.
[424] The “Lost Atlantis” and the “Challenger” soundings, Nature, 26 April, 1877, xv. 553, with sketch map.
[425] J. Starkie Gardner, How were the eocenes of England deposited? in Popular Science Review (London), July, 1878, xvii. 282. Edw. H. Thompson, Atlantis not a Myth, in Popular Science Monthly, Oct., 1879, xv. 759; reprinted in Journal of Science, Lond., Nov. 1879.
[426] Etude sur les rapports de l’Atlantis et de l’ancien continent avant Colomb (Paris, 1869).
[427] Revue de Géographie, Mars, Avril, 1880, tom. vi. et vii.
[428] See p. 46.