The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-05

Now comparing the products OF the soil With the
not little ,emarksbie II win DO seen that our crop Of
ln6ian value II at but hal the present marke.
prices amounts to more than all the gold from California,
that wheat crop at the most moderate estma
worth much all the gold 10 the country wh.t
the Oldest growth of oats with all reasonable allowance
for exaggeration more than equals any two years pro-
have been led to look up those facts my own pur
poses and put them before the society to commend
client book and to put record important points
of our en-. industrial history.
SAMUEL 0sGoOD, deputy Recording Secretary.
The was read by M. Tossing report and set Of
buttons recommending the State authorities at Albany 10
possess theme the Revolutionary DOCUMENTS
Gently discovered in the garrett Of old resident Of this
teemed there records valuable only well old
papers and recording any important events other
VIE fhcialy recorded The report WAS accepted and
resolutions ;dt pted.
Mr. Tossing then presented paper the so,isty being
record Of he Of the city Of New York in the
Mr. CnARIrs W. Elliott then Introduced TO the au
dierce and read paper entitled Northmen's Dscove
ries IN America" lie said he presented 10 the society
the first page of American history nearly obteratct by
the tooth Of Time To the Greeks an Romans the Lands
# the North land of darkness and mystery In tho
ninth century the NeDrers penetrated into Russia and
sstablshe the Crs At Noyag rod they came from the
South, and thsk ats covered the North Sea- and thew
we're called sea lover These men sailed without COM
pass but guided by the Ssrs and til
mai the path OF the Indian straight and guides the
bold drake her Northern nest After further history
Of he Nothmen Of Europe he said be should now answer
the question, !" Who discovered American Beon the
Of lick the Red t, cclsnd and asked for his
father He told that bis father had eaei West He said
he would follow him, and did After some davs, sa,l
ing they 70 land with trees upon the shore and
they asked Boon II this Greenland He sail 1t could
not be- They called TO the South, and after three
ds! sailing they went the shore and found the mat
their IA her aud hs house. So runs the story This
Ia the pS6. The question arises what land VA,
ibsi Peon did for di.covaries-he was not ia
earch Of continents, but his father and and ng hun he
satisfied The other sons Of "rick the Rcd started to
the Westward sna according to Icelandic hi.torv
reached New'oundl md, and perhaps Nantucket ana
me Fay of FundA, because the tradition tell,
81 their finding bds where the tide rose 30 A 10 cover
bps upon dry lard In The land about Nantucket. o.
in latitude should judge of A. the brother of Bson
'opLd grs pee, and called the land Viueapd Nov w..
tnow that the fox grspe abounds in this region Stil
archer brother Of Boon, called Thor void sailed To the
westward and found great abundance OF fsh and al,
With he Indif ns On tho shores OF Ne England Thor
void was H. ed, and buried there, and over him vss
erected cross. and the land thereafter called Cross
befs Afterwards Thorwin made voyage to the West
with enc hundred and sixty men. They came TO a land
irdeDed with eavre, and ran their ships ashore and
fund there great any ducks, and the eggs 40 thct
hey could not walk for then. They record Alan
meeting with the Indians and there was no saos
that winter and the fed the grass which iod-
that these discoverers must have reached warm
sorgs OF Iceland Leaving on, Of the song whssv
marvellous II was reasonable 70 believe that the
facts OF the story true The ectnrer then
70 relate discoveries which had from lime TO time
been made In Rhode Island, such as Inscriptions &c
which could not he Indian inscriptions and which pro-
scandnsvisn origin The lecturer concluded BY saying
such nes he had related might BE- found
In the historical Archivcs As Copenhagen and although
hs would hot be en'buslass enough 70 AZ the precise