C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent is a novel. The copy I read is Project Gutenberg eBook 285. The cover and the heading print no year and no subtitle. The file’s rights line says the text is public domain in the United States. An automatically generated catalog summary calls it a novel published in 1899. I do not put that year on the card, because this copy does not print it.
The frame is a doctor, Coppinger, in Grand Canary, reading a wax-on-talc book he calls Deucalion’s. In the story Deucalion has ruled Yucatan for twenty years. The Empress Phorenice recalls him. The old priests later name him king, wake Nais, and put the two of them in the Ark of the Mysteries. The sea drowns Atlantis. Two survive. The remaining sheets are too broken to name the shore where the Ark lands. These names and customs are the novel’s story. They are not an archaeological report.