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Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 by Various
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royale des antiquaires du Nord. 1836-1839. _Copenhague._ 8°. p.
27.--Historia Vinlandiæ Antiquæ, seu partis Americæ
septentrionalis--per Thormodum Terfæum. _Haviniæ_, 1705. 8°.
1715. 8°--Antiquitates Americanæ, sive scriptores
septentrionales rerum Ante-Columbianarum in America. _Hafniæ_,
1837. 4°.

_On the Welsh discoveries._--The historie of Cambria, now called
Wales--continued by David Powel. _London_, 1584. 4°. The
Myvyrian archaiology of Wales, _London_, 1801-7. 8°. 3 vol.
British remains, by the Rev. N. Owen, A.M. _London_, 1777. 8°.
The Cambrian biography, by William Owen, F.A.S. _London_, 1803.
8°. Biblithèque Américaine, par H. Ternaux. _Paris_, 1837. 8°.
The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the
English nation--by Richard Hakluyt, M.A. _London_, 1589. fol.

BOLTON CORNEY.

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MADOC--HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA.

Dr. Plott, in his account, and Lord Monboddo, _Origin and Progress of
Language_, refer to the _Travels of Herbert_ (17th century), lib. iii.
cap. ult., for a full history of this supposed discovery. They derived
it from Meredyth ap Rhys, Gatty Owen, and Cynfyn ap Gronow, A.D.
1478-80. See also _Atheneaum_, Aug. 19. 1848.--Professor Elton's address
at the meeting of the British Association, on this and the earlier
Icelandic discovery.

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