| Show DISCO irRY OP i NORTH KEV WE IVF publish this mo coming coining ining a chiono buical epitome of the discoveries of america by the North men nien which has been collated for the journal with great r e at core cire byar thomas norton of washington city the subject is one of f interest hiltl t lid must always I 1 emain involved in 11 a certain degree tic 0 ree of obscurity tile discovery of the art of printing was not made in time to perpetuate tile the annals of the North men and doubtless the greatest portion of their sagas the arret irretrievably rieva bly lost the discovery of the runic tion in ill massachusetts considerably excitement the deport of tile of the IZ 1 11 II a in iii 1830 follow followed r by tile desai les aiches clies and publication of and others during the ensuing elltion SU ing decade will be te member by most ie af f the of that day the leading c cri of and america Aid erica contains extracts from 1 tit alio vai iodia ages then hen known and the discoveries claimed is were ere 0 generally regarded as well founded so late as 15 1 5 the magazine wi aiters had not yet exhausted the lie since the then there has hern been nothing Z to lu juan public interest int inte cicaL iest until the ol 01 ti the ie holt saga in ill 1863 and the moat confirmation of iab 1 ill tile shayn mr S 0 th that it thu the Sui siu n aar graven in ill 1755 by langlay Lang LaD lcy gley this thie is simply absurd ll it is tile the most inscription in ill ct existence and it is not within the limit of human that an all unknown virginian irginia ll should have been able to con it a bundled and eight beals before tiling thing 0 of the sa saga r a which it m 0 o wonderfully millies was not at that time a man mail living whose knowledge c or tile iturbe ien taint would havu lia ve enabled enabled him to accomplish such i feat and it il is to bay ay that until tilte llio discovery die covery patho of the olt saga tile aai st 11 ll eamar ife subject never ventured to assert that the north men inell had penetrated below the parallel I 1 of sandy look hook if is any hoax in ill the matter the alio signa of langley is a pait or of tile hoax and lias has buen been carved within three years year and by S someone 0 in c boc acquainted with irith the llie S olt baga t chelc ib one olic point to lo which tile lie attention ol of mr all not on oil liis not been directed we vc refer rel er tu to tile expedition flom walet in the tenth c century ell which never returned and which is is supposed to account fur for certain aich co logical ien pains in new mexico aud and arionia Ario nii the subject is wrape in ill fat far moru more piol bellid mystery than it ib tile ellb doiy of the Loid louisville twi lud IT is ia popularly supposed that thai cali lias IMS the biggest 0 cices tices in the world but professor assor sw illow allow of the Cic Cc survey claims the distinction for liis his own state Ile gives tile the following actual tile of f big bi in missouri Atis tile the largest lai 6 gest is a sycamore in mississippi sis bis sippi county sixty live five feet high 0 which two feet above the b pound measures forty three feet in ill circumference another in howard county 6 thil ty eight and 1 a I half feet in ill diameter A cypress in ill cape girar datu county at a distance of one foot above tile gLon ginlund jid mca luel ulc twenty nine filet fet in ill A cottonwood in ill county thiril feet bound ut at a 1 tance of six fe w t bove above t the ground 0 A pecan in ill the battle county i ci feet in ill ch A black abilock balimt w alnuten in benton Q twenty two reel feet in ill A iwhite ual oak in howard county i is s twenty six aix feet in ill cir cuni terence it A tulip tree poplar in ill cape Gita ideall coun count I 1 it ih unity feet ill in ence 11 c is i a tupolo in ill S stoddart tod dait county thirty feet in chelini is a back blackberry berry in allow ard comity eleven cleven feet in ill A k spanish oak jak in ill new county comity i it twenty six feet in A withe white asli ash iii in mississippi county is sixteen fuel feet in ill A huncy in ill boward county ib 6 thirteen feet round there is a willow in pon pein ascot county that liaa has grown to the size aizo sizo of hanty four feet in ill ence and aniu lie hundred feet in ill hight lii glit mis sib bi ippi county boasts of 1 a I sassafras that bu be kill king 0 of that ti diac ibe it nine feet in ill eliere is a act in ill tile samo colli ltv nine feet in ill in cot there is a 1 I dogwood six eix feet in ill in hi nii dippl 1 county 4 an gioia ow to a cil c it 1 it ference of thice feet tind and vines vines and to a ferell CF of eighteen to twenty two indies inches till journel Jour nul mil oi bigan 0 all of fl fashionable society lq says lye the it lit lady in america is misa E mily emily Sho iberg of philadelphia |
