Bishop Of Buffalo
Published: 2019-01-25
Total Pages: 262
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Excerpt from Missions in Western New York, and Church History: Of the Diocese of Buffalo The records of the discovery of America by the Ice landers are too consistent, too truthful to be rejected. The whole Scandinavian people must have conspired to invent a gigantic fiction, were it false, even in one of its leading features; and they must have engaged unborn generations in the conspiracy. Such a fiction, too, must have guessed the configuration of some two or three thousand miles of coast, the distances and bearings of places, hundreds of miles apart, the zoology and botany of countries differing widely in soil, climate, and physical conformation. It was no fiction, surely, when Thornfinn exhibited the ears of maize in the streets of Trondhjem; nor when he sold the slab of bird's-eye maple to the Bishop of Bremen, for a mark of gold. More than eight centuries and a half have rolled away since Leif wintered in Vinland; yet his descriptions are pictures of Newfoundland and the. Country around Martha's Vineyard, to this hour. - Dublin Review, May, 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.