Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . t Erik declined, being,as he said, well stricken in years. They sailed away into thesea, and discovered first the land which Bjarni had discoveredlast. They went ashore, saw no grass, but plenty of icebergs,and an abundance of flat stones. From the latter circumstancethey named the place Helluland, hellu signifying a flat stone,Theve can be no doubt that the spot thus named is the modernNewfoundland. They went on board again, and proceeded ontheir way. They went
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . t Erik declined, being,as he said, well stricken in years. They sailed away into thesea, and discovered first the land which Bjarni had discoveredlast. They went ashore, saw no grass, but plenty of icebergs,and an abundance of flat stones. From the latter circumstancethey named the place Helluland, hellu signifying a flat stone,Theve can be no doubt that the spot thus named is the modernNewfoundland. They went on board again, and proceeded ontheir way. They went ashore a second time, where the landwas flat and covered with wood and white sand. This, saidLeif, shall be named after its qualities, and called Markland,(woodland.) This is undoubtedly Nova Scotia. They sailedagain to the south for two days and came to an island which layto the eastward of the mainland. They observed dew uponthe grass, and this dew, upon being touched with the finger and MAN UPON THE SEA. 95 raised to the mouth, tasted exceedingly sweet. This appears tohave been Nantucket, where honey-dew is known to THE NORTHMEN IN AMERICA. They proceeded on through a tract of shoal water, which cor-responds with the sound between Nantucket and Cape Cod, andappear to have run across the mouth of Buzzards Bay, and tohave ascended the Pocasset Biver as far as Mount Hope Bay,which they took for a lake. Here they, cast anchor, and,u bringing their skin cots from the ship, proceeded to makebooths. They remained during the winter, finding plenty ofsalmon in the river and lake. The nature of the country was,as they thought, so good, that cattle would not require house-feeding in winter, for there came no frost, and little did thegrass wither there. Their statement that on the shortest daythe sun was above the horizon from half-past seven till half-past 96 MAN UPON THE SEA. four enables geographers to fix the latitude of the place wherethey were at 41° 43 10, which is very
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