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Title: History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway, b. 1849 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Puritans Massachusetts -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York, Century History Co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Charles Christian Rafn, the Norsemen outlined,with painstaking exactness, the Atlantic shore from Iceland,Greenland, and Maine, to Florida and the Bahamas, as theseoncomers mapped the coast line from their crude sailing craftone thousand years ago. The late Professor Eben N. Horsford,* who died in * Horsford was a discoverer, not only in the antiquarian, historical, and geo-graphic fields, but he puts a new face on Christian missionary achievement, by reveal-ing to the world the once unknown Christian continent of faith and thought. InWellesley College, Horsford devoted a room to the gathering of literature fromthe peoples that had no literature, i.e., until Christianity came. In other words,Horsford made a collection of languages reduced to writing, of alphabets made, ofgrammars and dictionaries printed, and, from the translated Bible, the nucleus ofliterature—all created by the missionaries who explored the dark worlds mind. A PAGE OF SAGA MANUSCRIPTS. LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS 313
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WHEN MONSTROUS-TOED BIRDS WADED IN THE CHARLES. CLOSE TO HARVARDS STADIUM. LEIF ERIKSONS HOME. LANDING OF THE NORSEMEN. 314 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITJNS «

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