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most likely to fit the description of Streamf jord I am 

 not in a position to say. 



The question arises as to the real location of the 

 place that Thorfinn and his followers called Hop. 

 Most writers on the subject agree that it was some- 

 where on the coast of New England at the mouth of 

 some river there. Gustav Storm, in his article writ- 

 ten in 1887/^ maintained that Nova Scotia was Vin- 

 land and that Hop was on the southeastern coast of 

 that province. He felt that he had definite proof that 

 grapevines and self-sown wheat had been found there 

 when the Europeans first came to that locality and 

 settled there in the seventeenth century.^^ Many were 

 inclined to agree with Storm in regard to this, as well 

 as to other theories advanced by him on the sub- 

 ject. In 19 10 M. L. Fernald published a treatise*^ on 

 the plants that had been found in Vinland and Hop, 

 maintaining that those particular species of plants, 

 self-sown wheat and grapevines, were not found in 

 Nova Scotia, as far as botanists have been able to 

 ascertain. The effect of Fernald's criticism was that 

 the theories of earlier writers, like Rafn, were re- 

 vived and Vinland and Hop sought farther south, on 



3® Aarh^ger for Nord. Oldk. og Hist., 1887, p. 334. 



^^ Ibid.y pp. 340-342. 



^^ M. L. Fernald, Notes on the Plants of Wineland the Good, Rho- 

 dora, Vol. 12, 1 9 10, pp. 17-38. [See note, however, on p. 67, below. 

 — H. H.] 



