Further Traces of the Ancient Northmen in America (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Abner Morse
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1330692535
ISBN-139781330692530
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During a sojourn, eight years ago, on Cape Cod and the South Shore Islands, I made Ind.an rel.cs a subject of especial inquiry; and I here present the following results and observations, to elicit further light relative to the priority of claims to the discovery of this continent.
On the south side of the Cape, an estuary makes up from the Sound for miles,, called Bass River affording a harbor for vessels. On the east side of this is the modern village of South Dennis, with a fresh-water pond in the rear. Between this pond and the house of Watson Baker, Esq., a merchant and the postmaster of the place, he pointed out the spot in the side of a hill, where, in making an excavation about twenty years ago, beneath a white oak stump of ancient growth, he came, at the depth of of four feet, upon a hearth of round boulders arranged in parallel rows so as to form a neat horizontal parallelogram or square of three or four feet, and bedded in mortar. Of this he presented me a specimen, which proved to be garnetiferous silica and had no doubt been detached by the action of fire from the surface of the boulders themselves, which, in that vicinity, were of the same composition, and nearly as white as the mortar he had preserved.
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During a sojourn, eight years ago, on Cape Cod and the South Shore Islands, I made Ind.an rel.cs a subject of especial inquiry; and I here present the following results and observations, to elicit further light relative to the priority of claims to the discovery of this continent.
On the south side of the Cape, an estuary makes up from the Sound for miles,, called Bass River affording a harbor for vessels. On the east side of this is the modern village of South Dennis, with a fresh-water pond in the rear. Between this pond and the house of Watson Baker, Esq., a merchant and the postmaster of the place, he pointed out the spot in the side of a hill, where, in making an excavation about twenty years ago, beneath a white oak stump of ancient growth, he came, at the depth of of four feet, upon a hearth of round boulders arranged in parallel rows so as to form a neat horizontal parallelogram or square of three or four feet, and bedded in mortar. Of this he presented me a specimen, which proved to be garnetiferous silica and had no doubt been detached by the action of fire from the surface of the boulders themselves, which, in that vicinity, were of the same composition, and nearly as white as the mortar he had preserved.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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