Origin of the Red Men:

"Tyrians having been driven from their native city by Alexander and refused a place of refuge sailed for the great island of Atlantis ...But the island having been destroyed by a great overflow they sailed many weeks and at last landed upon the shores of Mexico where they founded the Aztec empire." - Portland Transcript (1850)

Dr. Newman's 1849 book "Origin of the Red Men" is based on the old tradition of the island of Atlantis related by Plato in his dialogue entitled Timaeus as having been...