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NOTICES OF RECENT AND FORTH-COMING SCIENTIFIC WORKS. 
Foreign. 
£:, Balj Discovery of America by the Scandinavians.—An inter- 
think etccnuipication, dated at Copenhagen, has just been received 
By the Conn. Academy of Arts and Sciences, from Charles Chris- 
tian Rafn, Knight of Dannebroge, R. Danish Professor, Dr. Philos- 
- Secretary to the R. Society of Northern Antiquarians. We 
are permitted to make the following extract : 
“Tt is known that the inhabitants of the North of Europe visited, 
long before Columbus’ ‘time, the countries on the coasts of North 
eis The preaten” part of the information on this subject has 
: | published. 
