Note 5 — Part II
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This exploration by Fuente and Bernarda is regarded by most of the authorities on this subject as being spurious. The account of it first appeared in a London periodical (the Monthly Miscellany), in 1708, and it is now supposed that it was simply a clever hoax. For more circumstantial description of it, see Bancroft’s Northeast Coast, i, pp. 116–119; and Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of America, ii, pp. 462, 463. ↑