The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-23
MORSE MYTHOLOGY.
Lost NOrumbega is Located in
Massachusetts.
A HARVARD MAN FINDS THE SITE.
Rumors Of Cuban Revolution Discomfort In
the Spanish Army-COmments Of the
Portuguese Press on the Revolution.
Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch

Especial TO THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
Boston, NOV. christopher COlum-
bus, Amerigo Vespucci. Lief Erickson,
Mary Chiffon and other ancient persons
p whose names are inseparably associated
by historians with the discovery of Amer
lea, fell yesterday into the background OF
mediocrity with the official proclamation Of
the location Of the lost city of Norumbega
right here in the suburbs 400 years earlier
than the first aforesaid globe trotters were
born. Up to date the state Of Maine laid
claim to the site of the lost city, with
towers of gold and the poet Whittier has i'm
mortalized IL as Maine town. But Prof.
Horsford, formerly of Harvard college,
having been on the trail of Norumbega for
a long time, has followed it across the
Maine boundary, through New Hampshire
and eventually up the placid Charles to
where the watch manufacturing town OF
modern times now stands.
Here the professor found traces of me-
tropolis in the eleventh century. He I'M
earthed tablets, mounds, Wharves, bitches
and prehistoric rocks enough to make him
believe the ancient Norumbega was pretty
wide awake kind of city even for those
DAYS He sent the good news to Judge
Daly.o the American Geographical society,
and has collected money enough to build Il
tower in commemOratiOn OF the city and
yesterday dedicatOry exercises under the
auspices of the society were held IN the
presence of a crowd of wondering Wal
thamites. Judge DAILY, of New York, was
to have been present but could not come
owing to illness. Prof. HorsfOrd summar-
lied his discovery thus:
Norumbega, the city, country, fort and
river The name is from the Indian
Uttoianio of NOrbega, the ancient form of
NorVega Norway, to which the region OF
Vineland was subject. The city is at and
near WATERFOWL, where remain to-day
docks, wharves, walls, dam and basin. The
country extending from Rhode Island to
the St Lawrence was first seen by Barni
Herjulfsen, 9s5, A. d. Lief Erickson
landed on Cape Cod 1000 a. d. The Morse
canals, dams, walls, pavements. forts and
terraced places Of the assembly remain to-
day.
Fort was at the base of the tower and the
region round about was occupied by Bre-
ton French in the fifteenth, sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. The river Charles
was discovered by Lief Erickson, 1000 AID,
explored by Tuorwa!d, Lief's brother,
1)O3 4 D., colonized by Thortinn kearise-
Is, 1907 a. D.; first bishop, Erik Gnupson,
l1H AD The industries for 30 years,
were fish, furs and agriculture. The latest
Morse ship returned to Iceland in 1871.
His researches warranted the cOnclu-
sion. h, said, that Norumbega was within
the limits of Massachusetts and not of
Maine. After his speech Mile lola, the
Swedish nightingale who recently married
Lwyer Edward AchOrn, sang a native
song, and the Wellesley college girls also
The tower is erected in Waltham, close by
Charles river and is constructed after the
Morse fashion