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DWELLINGS OF THE SAGA-TIME IN 



the group of houses built by the party of Thorfinn Karlsefni in 

 Vineland. 



The second house I show for the construction of the walls and 

 the little pavement, presumably at the door, which resembles that 

 in the temple at Thyrli shown before. The outer side of the wall 

 contained only one layer of stones, the inner, according to cus- 

 tom, containing more and larger stones, some of which had fallen 

 in. The oblong platform of small stones occupied the place of 



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SUPPOSED NORSE RUIN IN MASSACHUSETTS 



and resembled a fireplace, but showed no trace of such use, un- 

 less in the dark sticky earth between and under the stones, which 

 I have since been told may have been ashes absorbed in the soil. 

 This house, Avith the other ruins near it, are about ten or more 

 miles from the settlement at Cambridge, and so far from the river 

 that it must be attributed to later visitors from the North than 

 those told about in the Vineland Sagas. 



No relics have been found at either of these sites which I attri- 

 bute to the Northmen. I have, however, one stone implement, 



