[Antiquaries consider the mention of _Cape Breton_ and _Penguin Island_ as evidence. It cannot prove much, as the particulars were not committed to writing till about half-a-century after the voyage.] "There is also another kinde of foule in that countrey [between the Gulf of Mexico and Cape Breton] ... they have white heads, and therefore the country men call them _penguins_ (which seemeth to be a Welsh nanme). And _they have also in use divers other Welsh words, a matter worthy the noting_."--The relation of David Ingram, 1568. in _The principall navigations_, etc. 1589. Fol. [This narrative was compiled from answers to certain _queries_--perhaps twenty years after the events related.] "Afterwards [anno 1669] they [The Doeg Indians] carried us to their town, and entertained us civilly for four months; and I did converse with them of many things in the British tongue, and _did preach to them three times a week in the British tongue_," etc. Rev. Morgan Jones, 1686.--_British Remains_, 1777. 8°. [The editor omits to state how he procured the manuscript. The paper whence the above is extracted is either decisive of the question at issue, or a forgery.] The _student_ may infer, even from these imperfect hints, that I consider the subject which he proposes to himself as one which deserves a strict investigation--provided the collections hereafter described have ceased to be in existence. "With respect to this extraordinary occurence in the history of Wales, I have collected a multitude of evidences, in conjunction with Edward Williams, the bard, to prove that Madog must have reached the American continent; for the descendants of him and his followers exist there as a nation to this day; and the present position of which is on the southern branches of the Missouri river, under the appellations of Padoucas, White Indians, Civilized Indians, and Welsh Indians."--_William Owen_, F.A.S. 1803. The title prefixed to this paper would be a misnomer, if I did not add a list of books which it may be desirable to consult:-- _On the Scandinavian discoveries._--Mémoires de la société royale des antiquaires du Nord. 1836-1839. _Copenhague._ 8°. p. 27.--Historia Vinlandiæ Antiquæ, seu partis Americæ septentrionalis--per Thormodum Terfæum. _Haviniæ_, 1705. 8°. 1715. 8°--Antiquitates Americanæ, sive scriptores septentrionales rerum Ante-Columbianarum in America. _Hafniæ_, 1837. 4°.