Note 527 — Chapter II
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The popular confidence in this view is doubtless helped by Montgomery, who has made it a point in his poem on Greenland, canto v. De Courcy (Hist. of the Church in America, p. 12) is cited by Howley (Newfoundland) as asserting that the eastern colony was destroyed by “a physical cataclysm, which accumulated the ice.” On the question of a change of climate in Greenland, see J. D. Whitney’s Climatic Changes (Mus. Comp. Zoöl. Mem., 1882, vii. 238).