22 DISCOVERIES OF 1384 to 



earthquake;^ and others again cut the matter short 

 by considering the existence of Frisland, and even 

 the whole voyage of the two Zenos, as a fiction. 

 But M. Buache and IM. Eggers have gone far to 

 prove the truth of the narrative on two different 

 grounds ; the former having shewn that the geo- 

 graphical position of Frisland corresponds with 

 the cluster of the Feroe islands ;t and the latter, 

 that the names given by Zeno correspond pretty 

 nearly with the modern names of those islands. J 

 Forster has tried the same thing, and finds a cor- 

 responding island for every name mentioned in 

 the narrative of the two Zenos. He has also dis- 

 covered that one Henry Sinclair was Earl of 

 Orkney and possessor of the Shetland islands so 

 far down as the year 1406; and as Sinclair or 

 Siclair to an Italian ear might sound like Zichmni, 

 he concludes that Sinclair is the prince mentioned 

 by Zeno.§ The name even of the aggregate, 

 Feroesland, differs not materially from Frisland. 

 Estotiland may be Newfoundland or Labrador. 



* It is got rid of in this way by the Due d'Almadover, the 

 Abbe Zurla and Amoretti ; (Voyage d, la Mer Atlantique, &c. tra- 

 diiit par Ch. Amoretti;) and Buss island itself is gone, if it ever 

 had an}' existence above water. 



*t Mem. sur Tile de Frislande, dans I'Hist. de I'Acad. des 

 Scien. 1784. 



I Mem. sur I'Ancien Greenland. 1792. 



§ History of Voyages and Discoveries made in the North, 

 p. 209. 



