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Title: The discovery of America by the Northmen
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Beamish, North Ludlow, 1797-1872 Rafn, Carl Christian, 1795-1864. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London, T. and W. Boone
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n before themthe less civilized, or more feeble Scythic wanderers, whomay have entered at the north: all emanating,—but bydistinct and separate channels,—from the one great centre,which peopled the wide spread sphere, and thus multiplying,in every region and every clime, the living evidences ofthose sacred records which offer peace and immortality toman. and thus differing from the skulls of all known races of men, but at the sametime presenting a similitude to the human figures on Mexican monuments:a hemispherical stone, with a smooth surface, which had apparently beenused for rubbing, was found in connection with these bones. BerlingskeTidende, Kiobenhavn, Feb. 12, 1841. * Torfaeus, in consequence of an erroneous Interpretation of the passage,pp. 64, 65, in the Saga of Erik the Red, relating to the length of the day,which he took to be eight hours instead of nine, fixed the latitude of Vin-land at 49°, being that of Newfoundland. APPEN DIX. APPENDIX. -vo-5 ^__ JN 4?j «•!>
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