Note 670 — Chapter II
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Cf. paper on the site of Vinland in Hist. Mag., Feb., 1874, p. 94; Alex. Farnum’s Visit of the Northmen to Rhode Island (R. I. Hist. Tracts, no. 2, 1877). The statement of the sagas that there was no frost in Vinland and grass did not wither in winter compels some of the identifiers to resort to the precession of the equinox as accounting for changes of climate (Gay’s Pop. Hist., i. 50).