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The finding out for the first time what was before unknown or unrecognized, is usually regarded as the meaning of the word discovery. In that sense there was but one discovery of America. Mr. Weise, however, is of the opinion that there were many discoveries of the Western continent, and some of these he dates back to prehistoric times. He startles us in He startles us in the opening sentence of his preface, by saying: "It is a fact that America in the early ages was one of the inhabited parts of the earth. The Egyptians furnish the earliest known account of the inhabitants of this continent. The subsequent explorations of the Spaniards confirmed the statements of the Egyptian records." All this is important, if true. That his view of the subject may be impressed upon our minds at the start, he begins his first chapter as follows: "The oldest scriptures, sacred and profane, attest the antiquity of the red race. As early as the antediluvian 66 * THE DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA TO THE YEAR 1525. By Arthur James Weise. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. [VOL. V, No. 53.] TERMS $1.50 PER YEAR. period this division of the human family had taken possession of the islands and continents of the Western hemisphere, where it founded an empire the most famous and formidable of primeval times. Great in political power, its commercial, agricultural and other economical interests were commensurably vast and unparalleled." If Mr. Weise can substantiate these statements by historical evidence, he is himself entitled to the honors of a discoverer. It is his misfortune that he cannot produce those Egyptian records, or authentic evidence that they ever existed. There is only a tradition that some Egyptian priests, twenty-five hundred years ago, said that there were some records in their country which told of a great island in the Atlantic Ocean situated in front of the Pillars of Hercules, now the Straits of Gibraltar, which was inhabited by a cultivated and warlike people, and that later this island disappeared beneath the ocean. æus The origin of the story, which has come down to us in two dialogues of Plato entitled "Tim" and "Critias," is that Solon, the Athenian law-giver, visited Egypt five hundred and seventy years before the Christian era, and was there told the tale of the "lost Atlantis" by priests who said they took it from their records. Solon, who was seeking a subject for a historical poem, wrote out the narrative and brought it back to Greece. About two hundred years later the story came by oral tradition to the knowledge of Plato, and was told by him in his two dialogues. Critias he makes the narrator, who says that Solon told it to Dropidas, his great-grandfather, who told it to his grandfather; and that his grandfather when ninety years of age told it to him when a boy ten years old. This is the account as it appears in "Timæus." In "Critias" the same narrator tells again how he came by the story, but in a different way. He says: "My great-grandfather, Dropidas, had the original writing, which is now in my possession, and was carefully studied by me when a child." This manuscript ought to be looked up by Mr. Weise. The main features of the tradition, or something even more shadowy, which Mr. Weise regards as history, are that the city of Athens, nine thousand years before the story was told to Solon, conquered a warlike and powerful |