History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . teenth century. It is a pleasing narrative,that of Lief Ericsons sail in iooo-iooi toHelluland, Markland, and at last to Vine-land, and of the subsequent tours by Thor-wald Ericson in 1002, Thorfinn Karlsefne,1007-1009, and of Helge and Finnborge inion, to points still farther away. Suchvoyages probably occurred. As is wellknown, Helluland has been interpreted tobe Newfoundland; Markland, Nova Scotia;and Vineland, the country bordering MountHope Bay in Bristol, R. I. These identi-fications are possibly co
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . teenth century. It is a pleasing narrative,that of Lief Ericsons sail in iooo-iooi toHelluland, Markland, and at last to Vine-land, and of the subsequent tours by Thor-wald Ericson in 1002, Thorfinn Karlsefne,1007-1009, and of Helge and Finnborge inion, to points still farther away. Suchvoyages probably occurred. As is wellknown, Helluland has been interpreted tobe Newfoundland; Markland, Nova Scotia;and Vineland, the country bordering MountHope Bay in Bristol, R. I. These identi-fications are possibly correct, and even ifthey are mistaken, Vineland may still havebeen somewhere upon the coast of what isnow the United States. In the present condition of the evidence,however, we have to doubt this. Noscholar longer believes that the writing iooo] COLUMBUS 39 on Dighton Rock is Norse, or that thecelebrated Skeleton in Armor found atFall River was a Northmans, or that theold Stone Mill at Newport was constructedby men from Iceland. Even if the manu-scripts, composed between three and four. Dighton Rock hundred years after the events which theyare alleged to narrate, are genuine, and ifthe statements contained in them are true,the latter are far too indefinite to let usbe sure that they are applicable to UnitedStates localities. But were we to go so far as to admitthat the Northmen came here and began 4o DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT [1260 the settlements ascribed to them, they cer-tainly neither appreciated nor publishedtheir exploits. Their colony, wherever itwas, endured but for a day, and it, with itslocality, speedily passed from knowledge inScandinavia itself. America had not yet,in effect, been discovered. We must remember that long anterior to Columbussday unbiassedand thoughtfulmen had cometo believe theearth to beround. Theyalso knew that The Old Stone Mill at Newport, R. I. Europe con-stituted but a small part of it. In the year1260 the Venetian brothers Niccolo andMafTeo Polo
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