New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-26
NOW PROF HoRsPoRD FOUND NORUMBEGA.
From The Bos ton Advertiser.

From The Bost ton ADVERTISER
Professor Horsfod said the secret OF me lccsUn oi
Normbe:a had been won only atte: protracted SIEGE
But il most fascinating bit Si eGqHssI ong ost
treasure something Of the rapture that comes Win .s
ipent Of prophec v 6 Aa Se name of
Eorumbegs and the city was ec Quarter OF t mile
3s This ss,, sT sr JOIN lIf IN at
pico on the Gulf of Mexico with some 10 Oihels' ~
stress for lack Of provisions he had Ta s ISas am
towns and coming at length, In l9o9 10 tne pahS VI
the NoumSegs He sailed Of nS f fnen names s Of Bo
ton Bay few hours distant from the Norumbega, ne
VISITED and ultimately got back TO IN % john %n'f a%
kins. He told such story as surpassed oeHei ~
had seen monarchs borne on golden Gna s % SeI the
dwelling OF Indian chief, where ne saw q u, "a
pearl and when his Listeners ba IN one chiefs house
he had peck Of pearls b he was b SEg Hsran Of
ss s Wafer sefG Rse sT T8eVS who had been
bega the banks Of what he pronounced one OF tne
not improbably been at the mouth of Stony Brook was
present and confirmed ingram IN I par ne 70 confirm
him in more and the brilliant researches OF MI Cmsn
Ing of zuni memory and ana Mns s at
Cambridge. enable US 10 comprehend most Oh 'no ~
The Professors narration of the by which his
discoveries were made was very interstn Ing If xn Si
long made study Of the Sssas WITH dd ne of the an
cient city One day he came upon this passage when
furnished food for thought 1t was this apparently d"
TRorfinn had wood feled and hown and bro brought
20 the SHIP and nas wSSe P reSea I the thought
the Norseman had cut down trees for shipmeni d ne
have nied it upon cliff to dry The river had been
described tidal river 10 winch III ~ wood
va s' mosr wood which commanded high price in
Europe In studying his theory from ne STANDPOINT
IN my theory every tributary to the Charles will be
bound to have. to have had dam and ponG' or
course Following This theory he discovered 1t TO DC
absolutely correct Says the professor ..o.-.r,,
we now why dams and ponds are necessary
nj the mouths of streams to prevent the blocks irom
going down the Charles without convoy ana OUT 70
Sea to DO lost Consider, as an example, the 0id
at the mouth OF the Cold Spring Brook opposite
watertown. I call its artificial walls below boom boon
ing one Just below Ncwtown Upper Falls on the leit
bank through the ridge. There is an admirable canal
walled on one side for 900 feet, along the west
hank of Stony Brook in the woods above the Fitch
burg Railroad crossing between Waltham and Weston
The CheeseCe Brook Is another ana Cor rr o iana
near Murayst.. not far from Newtonyile 1t may De
the cast of Eddy-st.. approaching Boston. All these
boom dams at the ENTRANCE to the Chare. point 90
larger boom dam across the Charles whore the total
harvest Of blocks might be drawn from the water and
piled 10 dry That must have been near the place
Charles from the Tower past IslinGtOn and Lily Pond
grove and the great watch factory at Watham and
the swamp at the mouth of the Cheese Cake, past
Bemis Station past the terraced hillside on the right
which the sweet water Of the river p0urs to-day.
The dam Is composed Of field bouhers. IT is at the
head of tdewater That dam the work Of
people who had come and gone before the earliest
English settlement shores The dam was
here when Winthrop came. 1t must have been the
work of people who there before the English
came" The speaker cited much other proof to this
efect 81 Here he said. the ancient seaport of
Vinland for the colony that after Thorfnn
left. to which in 1121 Bishop Upsi came 10 hold up
the symbols Of the faith The basin wharves, docks.
canals of this ancient seaport underlie the city Of
Watertown today and connected with and
its most prominent industries. Here and went
the commerce of the Mortimer first later the
nercs OF tSs t-snchme4 and possibly OF still other
ancient CITY of 'Norumbcga.'n