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Of relics, stone mortars, such as our Indians used, old horn spoons and debris of indescribable kinds, with nothing to indicate their age or origin, are brought forward as of Norse fabrication; and, most astounding of all, the remains of a great city have been discovered near Boston; a Norse city, and its name was Norumbega; that name which the bibulous Frenchman, stranded at a temperance hotel in Maine, was told, as he admired it upon the swinging sign over the door, was the original name of the Pine-Tree State, and who, reading it with the stress upon the second and fourth syllables, was moved to exclaim: “Well named from the first.”

From: THE PRESENT STATUS OF PRE-COLOMBIAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY NORSEMEN, by HON. JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER, AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 1894.

Hmm.. Bibulous is a wonderful word at least! And how about a temperance hotel..

Description

Of relics, stone mortars, such as our Indians used, old horn spoons and debris of indescribable kinds, with nothing to indicate their age or origin, are brought forward as of Norse fabrication; and, most astounding of all, the remains of a great city have been discovered near Boston; a Norse city, and its name was Norumbega; that name which the bibulous Frenchman, stranded at a temperance hotel in Maine, was told, as he admired it upon the swinging sign over the door, was the original name of the Pine-Tree State, and who, reading it with the stress upon the second and fourth syllables, was moved to exclaim: “Well named from the first.”

From: THE PRESENT STATUS OF PRE-COLOMBIAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY NORSEMEN, by HON. JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER, AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 1894.

Hmm.. Bibulous is a wonderful word at least! And how about a temperance hotel..