The words _Atlas_ and _Atlantic_ have no satisfactory etymology in any language in Europe or Asia, and we are certain no such roots are found in the Greek; but in the Nahuatl language we find their homes. The consonants most used are _l_, _t_, _x_, _z_; next the sounds _tl_ and _tz_; but _l_, the most frequent used, is never found at the beginning of a word. The radicals _a_, _atl_, which signify water, _atlan_, on the border or amid the water, give us the adjective _Atlantic_, pertaining to the land, _Aztlan_ (or _Atlantis_), in the midst of the water. We have also _atlaca_, to hurl or dart from the water, whose preterite makes _atlaz_. In the time of Columbus a city named _Atlan_ existed on the Gulf of Darien, with a good harbor, but now it is only a small pueblo named _Acla_. Undoubtedly we have reached the fountain-head. The nearest point of land from the Island of “Atlantis” was the Atlas Mountains, which at that distance would seem to be _darted up from the water_; from their _Atlantis_, _in the midst of the water_. One has but to look on the map of Mexico to-day, and see that my theory is supported by such words as Tlascoran, Tlascala, Tlatlanquitepec, Tlascopan, Tenochtitlan, Chialinitzla, Yxtacamaxtitlan, Popocatapetl, etc., and scores of others, which prove that those combinations of liquids and consonants are at home _only_ in the Nahuatl countries; _ergo_, the Atlas Mountains and Atlantic Ocean and “Atlantis” were named by these people before their continent was destroyed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VI. The First Men of America. ────── “Antiquity appears to have begun Long after their primeval race was run.” Time is the only alembic to test the true character of great men or deeds. Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and Hugo are the few select representatives whom the world acknowledges as its spokesmen. Shakespeare was in his grave a hundred years before he spoke authoritatively to the world, and with Dante it was no better. Ages had passed away before the seven cities of Greece warred for the honor of Homer’s birthplace, but for twenty-six centuries has the “Siege of Troy” stood out in profile as the model epic of the world, but of doubtful veracity because of its antiquity; but Dr. Schliemann’s excavations seem destined yet to find the funeral pyre of Patroclus, surrounded by the remains of Trojan captives.