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. * * * * * 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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