Martins, Charles Frédéric
Charles Frédéric Martins (1806-1889) was a French botanist and geologist who was so intrigued by the similarity of geology as well as plant species on the Azores, Spain and Ireland that he suggested in his 1866 book, Du Spitzberg Au Sahara[1440], that these were physically linked in the distant past and that they may have been part of Atlantis(a).
>Martins also said, in the Revue des Deux Mondes for March 1, 1867, “Now, hydrography, geology, and botany agree in teaching us that the Azores, the Canaries, and Madeira are the remains of a great continent which formerly united Europe to North America.”<
(a) https://translate.google.com.mt/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k253383&prev=search (link broken) *