The present writer has never found an Indian on the coast of Maine who could recall the word Norumbega, or any similar word. M. Beauvois shows, among other facts, that the Icelandic vaga is the genitive plural of _vagr_, signifying “a bay.” Possibly, however, the word is Spanish. In this language _b_ and _v_ are interchangeable; and _vagas_ often occurs on the maps, signifying “fields;” while _norum_ may be simply a corruption of some familiar compound. Perhaps the explanation of the word does not lie so far away as some suppose, though the study of the subject must be attended with great care. In this connection may be consulted such works as Ramusio’s _Navigationi et Viaggi_, etc., Venice, 1556, iii. 359; the _Ptolemy_ of Pativino, Venice, 1596, p. 281; Wytfliet’s _Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ Augmentum_, etc., Douay, 1603, p. 99; Magin’s _Histoire Universelle_, Douay, 1611, p. 96; _Introductio in Universam Geographicam_, by Cluverius, Amsterdam, 1729, p. 673; De Laet’s _Nieuwe Wereldt_, etc.; Leyden, 1625, p. 64, and his _Histoire du nouveau Monde_, etc., Leyden, 1640, p. 58; Ogilby’s _America_, 1671, p. 138; Montanus’s _De Nieuwe en Onbekende Wereldt_, Amsterdam, 1671, p. 29; Dapper’s _Die unbekante Neue Welt_, etc., Amsterdam, 1673, p. 30. The subject of the varying bounds and the name is also discussed by Dr. Woods in his introduction to Hakluyt’s _Westerne Planting_, p. lii, and by the following: Sewall, _Ancient Dominions of Maine_, p. 31; De Costa, _Northmen in Maine_, p. 44; Murphy, _Verrazano_, p. 37; _Historical Magazine_, ii. 187; _Magazine of American History_, May, 1881, p. 392.