The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas in the XIVth century - comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland and of the Northmen in (14784082772)

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Title: The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas in the XIVth century : comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland and of the Northmen in America before Columbus

Year: 1873 (1870s)

Authors: Zeno, Niccolò, 1515-1565 Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891 Bárðarson, Ívarr, 14th century

Subjects: Zeno, Niccolò, d. ca. 1395 Zeno, Antonio, d. ca. 1405 Sinclair, Henry, Sir, 1345-ca. 1400 America -- Discovery and exploration Italian Greenland America -- Discovery and exploration Norse

Publisher: London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society

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scribed by Captain Graah,.were also identical withthe sources of the hot water used in the monasterydescribed by Zeno. Subsequent reflection has causedhim to alter this opinion. The only monastery men-tioned by Ivar Bardsen is the Augustinian one dedi-cated to St. Olaus, and as far as the editor is able toform an opinion from Ivar Bardsens chorographyalone, he sees no reason to differ from the conclusion ofProfessor Rafn, who places its site near the lake whichlies on the right hand side of the inner recess of theFjord of Tessermuit, in lat. 60 deg. 26 min., in almostthe same latitude, it is true, as Ounartok, but sepa-rated therefrom by two fjords, at the mouth of thesecond of which Ounartok lies. Moreover, the de-scription of the islands of Ounartok does not tallywith that of the site of the monastery, which, accord-ing to Ivar Bardsen, was near a lake, a conditionrealised in the position adopted by Bafn. It is true that Dr. Bink, the late Inspector of E S ..... ;$ Sir ££<S •

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Sketch Chart of theSOUTH WEST of Greenland, from the Danisli Admiralty Survicorrected to 1873. /-■ .■-. > /.,... adaptation al th. ,Sites from Ivor Bardsini Chorogrof HAKUTCT. S. ~. v. - INTRODUCTION. lxxxiii South Greenland, has obligingly written to inform theeditor that he knows of no hot springs in the districtof Julianashaab, besides those of Ounartok; but thereis enough capriciousness in volcanic action to makethat fact far from conclusive as to the non-existenceof hot springs in another proximate locality fivecenturies ago. Moreover, there is a remarkable ex-plicitness in the description of a phenomenon whichour knowledge in the present day shows to be per-fectly accurate. The text says that 11 Where the warm water falls into the sea there is a largeand wide harbour, which, from the heat of the boiling water,never freezes all the winter, and the consequence is thatthere is such an attraction for sea-fowl and fish, that theyare caught in unlimited quantity. In this descri

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