{"id":29327,"date":"2016-01-10T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T07:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29327"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:28:59","slug":"davis-asahel-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/davis-asahel-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis, Asahel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asahel<\/strong><strong> D<\/strong><strong>avis <\/strong><strong>(1791-?) <\/strong>a former chaplain of the Senate of New York, delivered a lecture in 1839, <em>Antiquities of America <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1276<\/a>]<\/sup><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><sup>+<\/sup><\/em><\/span><\/strong>, in which he offered a strong defence for a Scandinavian, or as he calls them &#8216;Northmen&#8217;, discovery of America five hundred years before Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>When speaking of Atlantic landbridges, he stated <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m inclined to believe that the land that united the now two continents, was the Atlantis, spoken of by Plato, Homer and Hesiod &#8211; Plato saw an account of this land which disappeared, in the hieroglyphics of Egypt.&#8221; <\/em><sup>[p.11]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>At least twelve editions of his paper have been published.<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>[1276]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+ <\/span><\/strong><\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=loc.ark:\/13960\/t70v8v035;view=1up;seq=9%20\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=loc.ark:\/13960\/t70v8v035;view=1up;seq=9<\/a> (4thedition) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=loc.ark:\/13960\/t3cz3k98r;view=1up;seq=5\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=loc.ark:\/13960\/t3cz3k98r;view=1up;seq=5<\/a> (12th edition 1844) <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/000287623\">https:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/000287623<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asahel Davis (1791-?) a former chaplain of the Senate of New York, delivered a lecture in 1839, Antiquities of America [1276]+, in which he offered a strong defence for a Scandinavian, or as he calls them &#8216;Northmen&#8217;, discovery of America five hundred years before Columbus. When speaking of Atlantic landbridges, he stated &#8220;I&#8217;m inclined to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4403,117,1585,122,123,4863,132],"class_list":["post-29327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asahel-davis","tag-atlantic-landbridge","tag-christopher-columbus","tag-hesiod","tag-homer","tag-northmen","tag-plato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66228,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29327\/revisions\/66228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}