| Show IEIF AMI dlUMIIUS la Biwtlief I tt of lh NIIWI will be tutHl I mi IntftMUsc article ly Dr i John Tborhloon ooHololl the early 1 illtotTerlM on the AmttlMii coast by i Northmen llwi < vullten it the rt quest of the IcoliindU Soelelr of National Irlemlt situ niUlthwl at Uytavlk jMlnml Tim ltaulall h by Mr John Tlioriiltton u setter i wo believe of Hut hlrtuilo 10101 l 1 hot now a rwUoat of Illume f oily Monliea The author 11 l rioter rio-ter magnlimt of ttiu Ual f Terjlly oMccltnd and teeofnlteu l a one ollb brut Inform anlliuirlim I c j 1 ol the northern coimtrlei The article wmUlui stout all lint li I iltlvely F known > concerning HIP famous 111 KrlkMM and I oilier who toed Toy t ages to this continent and llliUtU 1 on the reoordi still found lit ItelanJ I sob morn MiweMlly on the code I mmnl l nll > rlha lilaml of Photo which wn brought Irani Copoiihtgeu 10 I tno World Patrol it n onorinoui vipeiue The doubt entertained regarding < < I the perilous voyigei < < of hell Krlktoii and others of hit countrymen In flue I beginning of the eleventh century and I lulflMiiuinlly are by tills Hint pretty I I generally dlipelletl sod It li 1 rot > led I u a hhtorlal foci Hut they actually landed America and recorded the event Hut It li equally certain that their dlicoverlci did not extend far entugli toexcllothe general alttntlon of the world They lint no Idea of the vail continent ot which they had seen but a very mull Ilrr The lime wet notlbon com for the opening of Hilt country fur the universal boric III of nlsnklnd Tint wet remved for J Columbui four c nluil > i Itor l In other word Ilio dlioorrrlM by which I Iblmntlnaat was made tort of the cUllltrd world the home of liumau llbrrtjr the throne of the queoa of I natloni omit the craillo of his Church I of Clod Ilo Ihli UliinriiMllan will it I wsyeJuutlyto l traced lo the UcuotM I i and not to II the celebrated lolaudtr I Wliptliur Columbus list heard about i hell dliooTcilta and thereby woe I promt ted undertake hit > x < dlllou 1 to the Weototu liouil > li io U o quo lion not yet settled lly > om Itw UI < i vd that he Tlillcd Inland In 1417 a and then leonine acquainted wllli the records rouoeruluit Vlulaud Ulliori tllirard tbliaiwrllou at only aHum lion and cantonJ that the dimmer inljlit haws lilt Information of UM far sway country from traveling Iceland en It cannot he denlixl list OIODJ Ibo utgia cf the liland I al that Hum wire wine tutu ann i cui scholar educated In Germany or Kioocu mid veil known luothir I luro au countries and U la I not Im 1lblu that Columbus mlxlit hove met tome of them Hut It would prom r t that II he had been ablt to tout lo liM iloal reourdi cooUlulon aioouula uf voyages to the land In the west Im would tmehad anit tiHjrfrlul rRu Ultnt In this struggle to oonvlnoo bite cot ini rnrlt of tlio fUlllllly of i reaching that country The akMOC of any riferenoti lu inch Information may bo taken M protly solo cThleuov r that ho did not t a ere It Then acalu If IMi dUooverlei hut been the guiding I ttar In tlio mind of Columbiw hu would iiatunlly have liken nearly the earne oouriw ni Lull look lie would hva coos by way of Ureoulaud and reached Antonio lomewhirii soar Iielfnlwolhouolhori are Kid 10 bovudollo blr hili lithe till well known hu did Outdo but took an entirely InJrieudeul court lakliiR all the olmnoee of a third tUI coverer Tbs aouilJuratlou vauiiot 1 be dlirr iirded III a dlMUwlou abjut tho iwwlblu ooiintotlon Ulwran the dlH rtnl expedition to the grunt wl t hbo pretuoblllty U that at the lime of his nltueolh century 1110 Vlnlaiid woo urnolloally lorKOtten and that phi Mumry hy I tutu jituvlJmoo of tie Almighty was again dlioov red by Ueluuibui |
