The Pictorial History of the United States of America: From the Discovery by the Northmen in the Tenth Century to the Present Time, Volumes 1-2B. Walker, 1844 - United States |
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... party ; and I have adopted no theory respecting government or policy , which could influence my selection or representation of facts . What I have recorded of past transactions , has been drawn from authorities which are universally ...
... party ; and I have adopted no theory respecting government or policy , which could influence my selection or representation of facts . What I have recorded of past transactions , has been drawn from authorities which are universally ...
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... divided his company into two parties , whose business it was alternately to watch the settlements Dunham's History of Denmark , Sweden , and Norway . North Ameri- can Review . 20 DISCOVERY OF GRAPES . and to explore the country.
... divided his company into two parties , whose business it was alternately to watch the settlements Dunham's History of Denmark , Sweden , and Norway . North Ameri- can Review . 20 DISCOVERY OF GRAPES . and to explore the country.
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... party returned to Greenland , in the spring . The island above - men- tioned is supposed by the editor of the Antiquitates Americana to have been Nantucket ; and the region called Vinland , the * Wheaton's History of the Northmen ...
... party returned to Greenland , in the spring . The island above - men- tioned is supposed by the editor of the Antiquitates Americana to have been Nantucket ; and the region called Vinland , the * Wheaton's History of the Northmen ...
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... party was sent by Thor- wald , in the ship's long - boat , to explore the country to the south . They passed the summer in this employment , and found the country beautiful and well wooded , with a narrow belt of sand between the forest ...
... party was sent by Thor- wald , in the ship's long - boat , to explore the country to the south . They passed the summer in this employment , and found the country beautiful and well wooded , with a narrow belt of sand between the forest ...
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... party consisted , in the whole , of one hundred and forty men . They took with them all kinds of live stock , intending , if possible , to colonize the country . They touched at Helluland , on their way southward , and found many foxes ...
... party consisted , in the whole , of one hundred and forty men . They took with them all kinds of live stock , intending , if possible , to colonize the country . They touched at Helluland , on their way southward , and found many foxes ...
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