The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-03-21

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civilization in few sentences. tia
lecturer aid fbai his investigation si
ibo salifc. anier dIscussi9n uas
prompted by a fasaee 10 liamboIJl's
"Cosm0s, which stated. al q fet
. thAt the frH voyage of the tcalan
dcrs 10 Greenland 90 gs3 "was 6'-
lowed by voyages 70 North Carolina
This, he said, excited bis ca iofty
and caused him ~ read everything
bearing on tha subject. thc result o'
Dis conclusions being That llunboldtg
statement was no' only true, bul less
tlan The whole truth. for, 10 his opiu
ion, the evidence which ho was aJcul
to offer established the fact lhlt yoy-
ages 10 aud settlements on tie coast
south Of Chesapeake Bay were made
by Celtic race before the discovery
Of Greenland by Eic the Red.
lie then briefly recouutel the sew
eral voyages Of the Mortimer to the
northern par; Of America, beginning,
with Liefs voyage in the year 1000,
10 Vineland or New England, giving
the evidences Oh which their real oc-
curreLce is based, including the find
ing Of the Runic stone on one Of the
islands in Bafin's Bay, which attract.
ed so much attention among the
learned when I5afa's great work. "An,
tiqultateS Americana" was published |
in 1878.
Leaving then, the discoveries on
the northern coast, he began The dis
cussion of his main subject, which
was to prove that the country lying
between Virginia and Florida was,
before A, d. 1000, settled by Chris
tians, was designated Hvitramanna-
land, OF the Land of the White Men,
and was expressly called Island it
Mikla, or Great ireland. To fortify
bis position he gave rapid sketch of
The wonderful literature of Iceland,
distinguishing the principal Sagas
which treated Of these maritime ex, {
petitions, and vindicating their au {
particularly the "Land
and the "Eyrbiggja Saga"
be latter of which contains Tie ro-
mantle story of Bjora' the champion '
# Breidayik, who was discovered in b
his country Of Great Ireland thirty
ears after bis Disappearance from d
celand, by Gudlief Gudlangson, who n
isited the country in 1929. Many n
ther evidences of like kind were "
reduced. He then, in alIusion to ct
le old story Of Prince Madoc's voy, W
yes to this continent, rected some u
'marka5le facts going to show that to
e country was inhabited by Celtic pr
zee at q very early period, and gave lie.
very interesting account of the dc
rly civilization of the Irish race an
'out whom, be said, there seemed to 30
wonderful misapplehenslou even SIC
nong enlightened people. Follow me
g this up with an account of the
Sc and and fall Of free government sta
th in Iceland and Greenland, he ia
me to discuss Columbus's voyages. is
far from making any attempt to In
b the latter OF lus glory he gave sea
n full credit for his discovery" pu
Z mentioned one or two curious DO
d interesting anecdotes connected rls
th it. Yei
In reply to the very natural ques- th'
N Of what became Of those early spe
tleis, he observed that his inability bit
answer it furnished no argument sur
ainst the fact that the Irish did
Ike voyages to this country. The
ne question, he said. might, with -,
lal proprety, be asked in regard to af
Iole races who have existed on each =:
the four continents; for instance, -
, 'Mouad Builders on this eonli,
nt, whose monuments BY thousands -
Still visible In many of The States -,