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in front. Professor Horsford fixed Thorfinn's landing place a 

 short distance south of this, on solid ground. Geologists are unable 

 to say how long ago the salt marshes were formed. Thev are on 

 Winthrop's map of 1634, but the sjdvar-gata could hardly have 

 been accessible as a landing place after their formation. 



In summary, it may be said that at the only point of land on 

 the coast of North America which we have found to correspond 

 with the description of the site of Thorfinn Karlsefni's houses, 

 ruins have been dug out which bear peculiar features character- 

 istic of the period in Iceland known as the Saga-time, and differ- 



MaP of the supposed IS'oP.SE KriN IX CAMBRintiE. MassA( III ~KTrs. 



ing in certain essential features from the handiwork of all the 

 native races of North America, and, as far as is known at present, 

 from all other races in Europe or in America in post-Columbian 

 days. 



Extracts from the Reports of Dr. Gudmundsson and Mr. Erlingsson. 



The following extracts, from reports by Dr. Gudmundsson and Mr. 

 Erlingsson, refer to the ruins described in the preceding paper. The 

 plan for these researches was first to compare the aforesaid ruins with 

 the work of the native races supposed to have inhabited or vsited these 

 shores, next with that of the Norsemen of the eleventh century, and 

 later, if necessary, with the earliest English, French, Spanish, and Dutch 

 ruins on these shores. Dr. Gudmundsson and Mr. Erlingsson noted the 



