The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-18
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Their motto was Westward. hop ana
they pushed on, reaching the shores N
Greenland. and there made settlement
and in the beginning Of the eleventh
century Greenland was well settled
and tributary TO Norway. where Ere
the leader, had established the Chris.
tian religion.
Why. If they could easily have
sailed from Greenland 10 I.abra8or
as Bancroft says, did they not sal
westward and accomplish the passage
TO Labrador? They did. and there /,
no doubt in the minds OF the students
OF ancient history that they sailed IA
Labrador and farther south until they
landed on the New England coast as
far south as Cape Cod and perhaps as
far as Connecticut"
Left Eric, according to the narrative
was in Greenland in the year 1000 and
proclaimed Christianity. In the See.
Ond voyage he discovered Nineland %
the shores of New England. 10 which
he gave that name because Of The
abundance Of grapes growing wild In
the woods.
Where is "the point Of land well
covered with woods. and where is the
grave of ThOrwald. marked VITA
crosses? Several localities on New
England's shore have tracings OF In
scriptions. One is found on the North
mems Written Rock at or near Weg
Newbury, Mass. Tracings on a stols
table and stone pipe in ancient grays
I in Beverly, Mass, and other things Do
ff.srt
dence Of the landing OF the NOrsemG
800 years ago on New Englands shore
which they called Vineland.
Hampton has a stronger claim than
| any other locality and the Great Bears
Head must be 1.-The point Of land" that
/ was well covered with woods cen
/ turtles ago. Bears Head WAS then
much longer point OF land and has
| been wearing away constantly for 4
/ long time. There are rocks extending
/ out southeasterly more than a quarJa
| OF a mile. which are easily seen under
/ the water by gunners and tishermen
/ and which are a continuation Of ne
/ rocks leading from the point so Il Is
! undoubtedly a fact that the blun, gen
/ erations before the settlement OF the
| town, in 1888. was more than half d
mile in length from the westerly side
! where its rising commences. % he
easterly point.
Traditi0n-handed down through
seven generations Of the writer's an
cestors. and 10 them through many
generations OF Indians-says that
Bears Head and all the upland run
I ming westerly a mile or more 20 East
mans Point, southwesterly 10 the Oh
yer Nudd farm, was covered WIZ
wood. There is still a deed taking 10
/ a part OF the Nudd farm and writer
nearly 200 years ago, which calls lh'
land the Nut Trees
So there is no doubt that Boar
Head was covered with woods, MAXIM
IL the wooded point, with its bays, ans
the distance small between the tofes
and the sea-" and the strand fun
white sand.
Now. there Is no other landing p.ac
as described by the Norsemen IN the.
voyages 10 Vineland which answer
this description so well as do HaiHP
toms shores. But that description
not all, for We have the crosses Gu
on the stone many generations Uel1I
the settlement of the town by 20
white man-crOsses made, not Dy 10
Indian, but by someone who kne" d."
believed in the Christian religion
A certain field near the haIIo'
marsh and beach on the main r'au =
town contains the rock on WhlcA p.
cut the three crosses Designating '
grave where was buried THOR ~
Eric in the year A. .. 1904 Ihal ne.
with others adjoining. came INTO p''
session Of the writer's ancestors w
$50 years ago. and that part OF me ~ .'.
which contsfns the rock has been ll
der tillage and subject 90 the b0
for over $50 years. .t,
The rock IS large granite sl.H3 :.
ing IN the earth, its face near lN1 u
of the ground, with two crosse i.
thereon. and other marks. cul W
hand Of man with a stone cnl's.' ~
not by any owner. from Che oi'7'-.
proprietor, who took possession =
years ago. down 10 the present o"-
ers. t,,
They came TO a headland ina- y ~
ted out that was all covered ~
wood. and there were bays Oh e..-.
side and the strand that was e'l
with white sand and the
small from the forest TO the sea-. II
How true is The descripA'-- -,
there are the headland and me I t5
on either side. the long sandy oe5-', =,
= and the land which c0nla.L5--- 49,,
woods mot far from the ses-
is also the rock with the ell ~.
made by man 800 years ago. ~,
field now belongs 10 WaLa'r ~
al the street railway promoter.
Mr.. Lowell intends 10 erect IL "a
ment near that Of Morse roeA' 1'.
Law of the land into paih.