Hyde Clarke, V.P.R.Hist.S., read this paper in June 1885. Longmans, Green, and Co. reprinted it in London in 1886 from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, printed by Spottiswoode and Co. He rejects a sunken Atlantic continent and the mud said to have closed the ocean. The intercourse he accepts is by ships, on the currents, already in the epoch of gesture language and then in the epoch of speech. Plato’s island, larger than Libya and Asia, he reads as America. Atlantis or Atalantis he takes as the title of the great King of the West, not the name of the land. The mud he explains as the Sargosso Sea.
The head seat was possibly in the Caribbean Sea, and it may be in St. Domingo. At that epoch the kingdoms of Mexico, of the Mayas, of the Chibchas, and of Peru must already have existed. Town names he treats as one plan and one epoch on both sides of the ocean. The pairs he prints from Ptolemy and from Short, by way of Donnelly, are Chol and Cholula, Coluae and Coluacan, Zuivana and Zuivan, Cholima and Colima, Zalissa and Xalisco. He answers Donnelly’s geological Atlantis, Nadaillac’s physical connection of cave men, and the Britannica article that calls the story impossible to determine.