Note 667 — Chapter II

Reproduction of part of the plate in the Antiquitates Americanæ, after a drawing by J. R. Bartlett. The engravings of the rock are numerous: Mem. Amer. Acad., iii.; the works of Beamish, J. T. Smith, Gravier, Gay, Higginson, etc.; Laing’s Heimskringla; the French ed. of Wheaton; Hermes’ Entdeckung von America; Schoolcraft’s Ind. Tribes, i. 114, iv. 120; Drake’s ed., Philad., 1884, i. p. 88; the Copenhagen Compte Rendu, Congrès des Américanistes, p. 70, from a photograph. The Hitchcock Museum at Amherst, Mass., had a cast, and one was shown at the Albany meeting (1836) of the Am. Asso. for the Adv. of Science. The rock was conveyed by deed in 1861 to the Roy. Soc. of Northern Antiquaries (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., v. 226; vi. 252), but the society subsequently relinquished their title to a Boston committee, who charged itself with the care of the monument; but in doing so the Danish antiquaries disclaimed all belief in its runic character (Mag. Amer. Hist., iii. 236).