Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650) was a German geographer, who in spite of an early death, managed to have a number of works published, the best known of which was Geographia Generalis. Like many others at this period Varenius considered the possibility of America as Atlantis[p.333-335]. Cotton Mather noted that Varenius considered the northern part of America to have been joined to Ireland until separated by earthquakes!