Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 1 (of 8) / Aboriginal America

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[447] Paul Gaffarel, Etude sur les rapports de l’Amérique et de l’ancien continent avant Christophe Colomb (Paris, 1869), ch. 1er; L’Atlantide, pp. 3-27. The same author has more lately handled the subject more fully in a series of articles: L’Atlantide, in the Revue de Géographie, April-July, 1880; vi. 241, 331, 421; vii. 21,—which is the most detailed account of the whole matter yet brought together.

[448] One of the most recent résumés of the question is that by Salone in the Grande Encyclopédie. (Paris, 1888, iv. p. 457). The Encyclopædia Britannica, by the way, regards the account, “if not entirely fictitious, as belonging to the most nebulous region of history.”

A few miscellaneous references, of no great significance, may close this list: Amer. Antiquarian, Sept., 1886; H. H. Bancroft, Nat. Races, v. 123; J. S. Clarke’s Progress of Maritime Discovery, p. ii. Geo. Catlin’s Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America (Lond., 1870) illustrates “The Cataclysm of the Antilles.” Dr. Chil, in the Nancy Congrès des Américanistes, i. 163. Foster’s Prehistoric Races, app. E. Haven’s Archæol. U. S. Irving’s Columbus, app. xxii. Major’s Prince Henry (1868), p. 87. Nadaillac’s Les Prem. Hommes, ii. 114, and his L’ Amérique préhistorique, 561. John B. Newman’s Origin of the Red Men (N. Y., 1852). Prescott’s Mexico, iii. 356. C. S. Rafinesque’s incomplete American Nations (Philad.), and his earlier introduction to Marshall’s Kentucky, and his Amer. Museum (1832). Two articles by L. Burke in his Ethnological Journal (London), 1848: The destruction of Atlantis, July; The continent of America known to the ancient Egyptians and other nations of remote antiquity, Aug. The former article is only a reprint of Taylor’s trans. of Plato. Roisel’s Etudes ante-historiques (Paris, 1874), devoted largely to the religion of the Atlanteans. Léon de Rosny’s “L’Atlantide historique” in the Mém. de la Soc. d’Ethnographie (Paris, 1875), xiii. 33, 159, or Revue Orientale et Américaine. Short’s No. Americans of Antiquity, ch. 11. Daniel Wilson’s Lost Atlantis (Montreal, 1886), in Proc. and Trans. Roy. Soc. of Canada, 1886, iv. Cf. also Poole’s Index, i. 73; ii. 27; and Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire.

[449] Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in all Lands and at all Times (Chicago and New York, 1885).

[450] Légendes, croyances de la mer. 2 vols. (Paris, 1886.) See ch. 9 in 1^ere série.

[451] L’Elysée transatlantique et l’Eden Occidental (Mai-Juin, Nov.-Dec., 1883), vii. 273; viii. 673.

[452] Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole (Boston, 1885), 4th ed.

[453] Eumenius (?), in the third century a.d., is doubtful about the existence even of the Fortunate Isles (i. e. the Canaries). Eumenii panegyricus Constantino Aug., vii., in Valpy’s Panegyrici veteres (London, 1828), iii. p. 1352. Baehrens credits this oration to an unknown author. Mamertinus appears to know them from the poets only (Ibid. p. 1529).

[454] Saggio sulla nautica antica dei Veneziani, n. p., n. d. (Venice, 1783); French translation (Venice, 1788).

[455] Il mappamondo di Fra Mauro descritto ed illustrato (Venice, 1806). Di Marco Polo e degli altri viaggiatori veneziani ... con append. sopra le antiche mappe lavorate in Venezia (Venice, 1818).