VINLAND AND ITS RUINS. 



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great shallows at its mouth at ebb tide, whence it was far to look 

 to the ocean. 



Following round the inner coast of Cape Cod, we pass Plymouth 

 and on to Boston before we find in the Charles River and Boston 

 Back Bay a river flowing through a lake into the sea, where great 

 shallows at its mouth are a conspicuous feature and it is far to 

 look to the ocean. 



West Wall of a supposed Norse Riix in Massachusetts, showing Layeus 



BETWEEN the StoNES. 



iV TuUF 



At this point we may add one more feature to the description 

 of Keel Cape — that it appears to be an island when approached 

 from the north. ]^ow we can continue our search down the ^NTortli 

 Atlantic coast, noting that Sandy Hook is not scored with bays at 

 the south, and that Cape Henlopen and Cape Henry could not 

 have been mistaken for islands.* 



* Chart of North Atlantic, No. 98. Norie & Wilson, London. 



