VINLAND THE GOOD 



saw only eighteen black guillemots, one her- 

 ring gull, and seven great black-backed gulls 

 — not a single eider, murre, or razor-billed 

 auk; the motor-boat had done its deadly work. 

 We landed and explored Grassy Island with 

 its sand-beach and fringe of strand wheat, an 

 elevated elastic tundra of lichens, mosses, and 

 curlew-berry, a pool of clear water, and be- 

 yond this, fifty or sixty feet above the sea, an 

 elevated beach of large and small pebbles. The 

 most skeptical would here be convinced of 

 changing land-levels. 



The mountain cranberry, the strand wheat, 

 and the northern white birch have all been men- 

 tioned several times in these pages. They are 

 of especial interest in the discussion that has 

 gone on for so many years as to the location of 

 "Vinland the Good," the land discovered by 

 Leif , the son of Eric, sometimes called Leif the 

 Lucky. Among the latest and most important 

 contributions to this discussion are "The Find- 

 ing of Wineland the Good," by A. M. Reeves; 

 "The Voyages of the Northmen," by Julius 

 E. Olson; "Notes on the Plants of Wineland 

 the Good," by Professor M. L. Fernald;i "In 

 1 Rhodora, vol. 12 (1910), pp. 17-38. 

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