Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-07-21
From the Evening Post.
HO! FOR THE POLEl-NO, 8.

prosont pouoration Will a great problem
solved and the stars and stripes or union-jack
fioatng firm the North Pole. Whoever reach
es that extreme point however, will find the
remnants of blue, white and orange flag fut
tering from it, if the winds of two centuries
have not torn its bunting into shreds and blown
them away. After few Introductory remarks
as to the curlosities of Arctic navigation, the
following list of Arctic voyagers and navigators
will demonstrate that the idea of Polar sea,
and the arrival at the Pole, is not visionary
project, and that if not accomplished at this
time 1t has been more than once nearly attained
in former centuries.
1t is by no means chmerical to assert that
Pytheas, the great Grecian navigator of the
Fourth and Third Century b. c., from Phocs
by descent, of Marseies by birth,) was the first
Arctic discoverer, for by comparison of his
narrative with those of the earliest Scandinavian
historians, as well the records of modern
cosmographers and navigators, it is satisfactorily
shown that he discovered either Iceland or
Greenland, or an island in the North Atlantic.
which island was the Atlantis of the Greeks.
the source of intellectual refinement and the
cradle of the fabulous divine intelgences.
There are many reasons TO suppose that this
Atlantis was the cultivated Greenland coIon;zed
bv the Scandinayians of the middle ages. One
of the clearest proofs of this fact is the hypo-
thesis that the name Greenland is not derived
from the Danish or Scandinavian word Groen.
Green. but rather from the Greek word Grain.
pronounced Greean.) signifying Apollo. or the
Sun in his full strenrth-the very term applied
by the native Greenlanders TO their country. as
is attested by more than o.e writer ON this in.
teresting subject. Thus the natives call their
island. Succanunea, "Land of Succanuc. the
Sun in its warmest 1.-THE fshing) season." or the
"Sunny Land;" and the Icelandic and Norwe-
pian colonists NAV have confounded the LAND
of Grain'-(he term applied to Greenland as
well by the natives as by the enlightened Irish.
who had, it is asserted. commercial relations in
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with the
islands of the Northern Atlantic. since Grain
signifies, in the Celtic dialect. "the strongest
power OF the sun.")-with their own Gren
/ pronounced alAe) Land -Greenland-which is
now altogether inapplicabe to that locality
This Grain of the Celts is doubtless TO be traced
to the Phrygian- Greek cpithet Grunems ap-
piled by IEneas to Apollo, designating the
'noonday sum-" and was adopted into the Ian
guage of the Greeks of Marseilles in conse-
quence of their intimate relations with the Phry-
gan and PhRnician mariners.
/ The second was the Norwegian discovery of
Greenland. variously set down at the dates A.
( ID. 40, or $50, or 9S2.
The third. the voyage of Nicholas and An
J
sailed thence in l3S0-S. Steering to the north
west, they arrived at a populous and fourishn
country in So deg. north between Iceland, and
Greenland, unknown to the English and conti-
mental Europeans, which they called West Fries
l land. Frobisher is said to have touched at one
of its ports in one of his voyages to Greenland
in search of gold. The people of Britain and
/ Ireland were represented in the Irish histories
destroyed by order of Queen Ezebath) las
trading thther in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries for the sake of its fisheries, when all
at once, and shortly after its discovery, this ex-
tensive territory, with all its polished inhabi-
tants dwelling in hundred towns, was swal-
lowed up by the ocean. This period was pecu-
iary calamatious at the far north, and pestilence
and famine, earthquakes and foundations, walk
ed hand in hand, diiusing terror and destruc-
ton.
we New Workers should bear in mind that
long exemption from the horrible visitation of
earthquakes does not prove that our district has
never known them, or that it never will be rent
by their convulsons. How very few even of
reading men recall that in 1868, Just two GEN.
turies since, there was terrible earthquake in
Canada, almost rivalling those which desolated
the valley of the Mississippi, whose effects were
experienced throughout Nav England and the
New Netherlands, our own state So says
'Charlevoix, in his remarks on the phenomena
of 1923.
Over this lost West Friesand or sunken land
of Buss, rolls in tempestuous weather a high
and terrible sea, the terror of Mariners pouring
its angry floods between Iceland and Cape Fare,
well into the Greenland sea of the Dutch.
"Does not this land of Buss, so sunken," de.
mands O'Reilly, in his work on Greenland, "bear
some probable reference to the old or lost Green
land, or the Atlantis of the Greek wrtersp 1t
would not be easy to disprove this"
There is a rock, "above WATER" laid down in
maps to the southwest of Iceland, which seems
to rise as melancholy memento of the former
existence of the lost Buss island.
The vague descriptions and general applica-
ton of the name Greenland render nothing
more easy than to confound one Arctic land
with another. This name appears to have been
applied to all the Arctic archipelagos. Thus,
modern Greenland west is styled New Green
land modern Greenland east, old, or lost
Greenland; Spitzbergen was known as East
Greenland, and the sunken West Fresland as
Greenland proper; while East Sptzbergen, as