The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-29

of the Bay of Biscay; and If 1000 years ago.
with all their recolections of one thousand
years of adventure. Brendan and his com
pauinns should have braved the fierce
stoIms of the Atlantic in :heir anxiety to
gather sheep into the fold of Christ, it
would not be very surprising
Traces of ante Columbian VOYAGES tn
America are Continually cropping up. and
IL rs not at all improbable that the Phoen-
icians in the voyages from what is now
known as the Straits of Gibraltar to Cane
Finisterre in Spain, and from that to Cape
Clear In Ireland, must have been occasion
ally driven out nf their course aud made
discoveries among the Azores, Madeira
the Canary aud Cape de Verde islands
humboldt states positively that those is
lands were known to the Phnnicias and
EtruScanS, and there is map in the Libra
ry of st. Marks at Venice, made in the
year 1896, some $50 years before the v,y
age of Columbus in which he Auti.l.s or
West Indies are laid down with wonderful
correctness.
The Scaudinaviaus have established
strong claims to the discovery of America
five centuries before Columbus set o,it on
his adventurous voyage, aud these claims
are we'll supPoTted by the remarkable works
Of RAIN, the D,;uiSh historian. The"Norse
Sagas, as tranSlat ed and published 5y ht,n
y
the.cnutinent, Greenland and Labrador, by
the Scandinavians; but they also give the
honor of she first discovery TO Irishmen at
much earlier period, and in their works
they call the new country ''Irelayad ct Mn
a." OF "Great Ireland They also stale
that when some of the Norsemen went
down to a region called ''IIuitra- Mamma
land" probably the Carolinas and Geur-
gia,) ''they found here" says Rain, "a
1itp npopla ff.,ap4 From, ,I,o
Of the north, having long robes or cluaks,
and frequently bearing crosses in a sort of
religious professions, and their speech was
the Irish Celtic dialect
Many very ancient manuscripts are to be
found in the Icelandic chronicles. or, ssSbal-
hoh-Saga." bearing date 1117, carefully
delineating several bays aud shores Of
America they also mention the death of
an Icelandic woman, named Suasa, who
had accompanied an expedition, and so
minutely described the Topography of the
place where she was buried that Sir
Thomas Murray con jectured that the spot
should be iHaShe immediate vicinity of the
great falls on the Potomac River above
Washington.
A Few years since a celebrated English
anuqaarY. Mr.. Thomas G. Raffinson, and
NJ. Louis Lequereux, the distinguished
geologisi, with two American gentlemen,
piOOSCGCu " the fpCdiiJleS mentioned III
the hal-holt-Saga" aud made close
search for any traces to ascertain the exact
place of Suasa's burial. After a long
search they discovered an inscription in
the lInnic language, cut deep in rock
called the "Arrow Head" 1t read as fol
lows:
HERE LIES SYAsY (or Suasa),
TIE FAIR-H AIRED.
PERSoN FROM THE EAST OF ICELAND,
TIRE WIDOW OF kJoCDH,
AND SISTER THDtsGdlf.
CHILDREN OF THE SANE FATHER
IWEHTY-F FIVE YEARS OF AGE,
MAY GOD MAKE GLAD HER SOUL.
1851.
Near it they exhumed some human
teeth and bones, three bronze trinkets aud
some other relics. | mention these To
show that the discovery of America was