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JVotices of Recent and 



Notices of recent and forth-coming scientific works. 



Foreign. 



1 . Early Discovery of America by the Scandinavians, — An inter- 

 esting communication, 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- 

 ophy, Secretary to the R. Society of Northern Antiquarians. We 

 are permitted to make the following extract : 



" It is known that the inhabitants of the North of Europe visited, 

 long before Columbus' time, the countries on the coasts of North 

 America. The greatest part of the information on this subject has 

 not hitherto been published. 



