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would make it ratlier an uncomfortable place for
newcomers. Mr. Babcock says: “My best guess for
Straum-ey would be Grand Manan, where, as well
stated in Osgood’s Maritime Provinces, the great
tides of the Bay of Fundy ‘sweep imperiously by its
shores.’ The rise and fall at Grand Manan is, I
believe, about the same as at Todd’s Point, Eastport,
opposite, across the rough strait, which I suppose to
be Straurn-fjord running between the cliffs of Grand
Manan and the mountains, which stand close around
Passamaquoddy Bay and along the neighboring
shores. You can see the race of the waters off that
point and off the North Point of Grand Manan, where
the fleets of floating gulls swing back and forth with
the great eddies, and the current is well known for
its volume and powder.
Here then is something unique and
striking—different from anything else along the whole American
coast, and just such things as would attract the
attention of explorers. Here, even today, there are
large numbers of birds, and then, also, we have
mountains, which it has been so difficult to produce
for the Yinlaad of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and
even Nova Scotia.
More might be said in the way of identification,
but I must leave this to Mr. Babcock, who promises
a book on the results of his researches.
If this region about Grand Manan Island proves
to be the vicinity of Karlsefni’s first winter quarters,
then his next summer’s trip toward the south
certainly brought him to some part of New England;
and here, as the saga says, “they found self-sown
wheatfields on the land there, wherever there were
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