. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. e turned the bow from the shore, sailed out on the open sea,and continued for three days with a southwest wind, whenhe saw a third land, covered with mountains and kept going along the coast and saw that it was anisland. Again he turned the stern to the land and sailed outon the sea. The wind was still from the southwest and wasvery high. After four days sail he arrived at Herjulfness inGreenland. The description of the land seen on the first landfall maywell be reconciled with the northeastern coast of Newfound-land. The second land si
. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. e turned the bow from the shore, sailed out on the open sea,and continued for three days with a southwest wind, whenhe saw a third land, covered with mountains and kept going along the coast and saw that it was anisland. Again he turned the stern to the land and sailed outon the sea. The wind was still from the southwest and wasvery high. After four days sail he arrived at Herjulfness inGreenland. The description of the land seen on the first landfall maywell be reconciled with the northeastern coast of Newfound-land. The second land sighted might be at Hamilton Inleton the Labrador coast, where the land is low and coveredwith scrub woods. The third landfall might be ResolutionIsland, where glacier-like formations are found and wherealso the Grinnell glacier is visible. From Resolution Islandto Cape Desolation, the southwestern point of Greenland, isabout four hundred and eighty miles, which distance, witha stiff southwesterly wind, might easily be covered in Coast Scenery at Osterville^ Nantucket Sound Bv courtesi of Mrs. Wm. L. Garrison
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