The Humming Bird. 10." 



To the venerable MARQUIS OF VERAGUA 



Descendant of the most illustrious 

 Don CRISTOBAL DE COLON 



This notice is dedicated. 



By A. BOUCARD 



Is AMERICA the same Continent mentioned by the An- 

 cients as ATLANTIS ? 



There are good reasons to believe that such is the case ! 

 It America is not the Continent known under that name, 

 Geology teaches us that it is very likely a part of it. Deep sea 

 soundings effectued in the Atlantic, between the Canary 

 Islands and the Antill^e furnish the clearest evidence that 

 during the Tertiary period, that portion of the bed of the 

 Atlantic, which rises nine thousand feet above the lowest 

 depths, and stretches over two thousand miles, from east to 

 west, was dry land. 



Platon is the first who mentioned the name of Atlantis in 

 two of his works which have reached us. 



Platon, by his mother, was the grand nephew of SOLON, 

 the lawgiver of Athens. 



SOLON had learned the existence, and the disappearance of 

 the Atlantis by the Egyptian priests of Sais, during his tra- 

 vels in Asia, and in Lybia. 



This was about six hundred years before CHRIST. The Sais 

 priests communicated to Solon, that in the books kept in 

 their temple, it was mentioned that at a time, one Continent 

 inhabited by the Atlantes, existed beyond the pillars of 

 Hercules. « what we know nowadays as the Strait of 

 Gibraltar » . 



The Atlantes once invaded Europa; but were routed by the 

 Pelasges. 



It was mentioned also in the said books that shorty 

 after, the whole of that Continent disappeared after a tre- 

 mendous earthquake, and an overflow of the Sea. Their 

 chronological tables gave the date of that frightful cata- 



