When Hildreth, in 1849, published his _United States_, he ranged himself, with his distrusts, by the side of Bancroft but J. Elliot Cabot, in making a capital summary of the evidence in the _Mass. Quarterly Review_ (vol. ii.), accords with the believers, but places the locality visited about Labrador and Newfoundland. Haven in his _Archæology of the United States_ (Washington, 1856) regards the discovery as well attested, and that the region was most likely that of Narragansett Bay. C. W. Elliott in his _New England History_ (N. Y., 1857) holds the story to be “in some degree mythical.” Palfrey in his _Hist. of New England_ (Boston, 1858) goes no farther than to consider the Norse voyage as in “nowise unlikely,” and Oscar F. Peschel in his _Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen_ (Stuttgart, 1858) is on the affirmative side. Paul K. Sinding goes over the story with assent in his _History of Scandinavia_,—a book not much changed in his _Scandinavian Races_ (N. Y., 1878).[637] Eugène Beauvois did little more than translate from Rafn in his _Découvertes des Scandinaves en Amérique,—fragments de Sagas Islandaises traduits pour la première fois en français_ (Paris, 1859)—an extract from the _Revue Orientale et Américaine_ (vol. ii.).[638] Professor Daniel Wilson, of Toronto, has discussed the subject at different times, and with these conclusions: “With all reasonable doubts as to the accuracy of details, there is the strongest probability in favor of the authenticity of the American Vinland.... The data are the mere vague allusions of a traveller’s tale, and it is indeed the most unsatisfactory feature of the sagas that the later the voyages the more confused and inconsistent their narratives become in every point of detail.”[639]