Note 213 — Chapter VI · THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS.

Footnote 213: Dr. Storm makes perhaps too much of this presumption. He treats it as decisive against his own opinion that Vinland was the southern coast of Nova Scotia, and accordingly he tries to prove that the self-sown corn was not maize, but "wild rice" (Zizania aquatica). Mémoires, etc., p. 356. But his argument is weakened by excess of ingenuity.[Back to Main Text]