Osafada 7s 6d Takinonimome 4d ------ 7s 10d Some years ago Professor Huxley told me of a letter from France which came to the London post-office thus addressed:-- Sromfredevi, Pique du lait, Londres, Angleterre. This letter, after exciting at first helpless bewilderment and then busy speculation, was at length delivered to the right person, _Sir Humphry Davy_, in his rooms at the Royal Institution on Albemarle street, just off from _Piccadilly_!] [Footnote 285: Columbus, on his journey to Iceland in 1477, also heard the name _Faeroislander_ as _Frislanda_, and so wrote it in the letter preserved for us in his biography by his son Ferdinand, hereafter to be especially noticed. See Major's remarks on this, _op. cit._ p. xix.] [Footnote 286: Perhaps in the old worn-out map the archipelago may have been blurred so as to be mistaken for one island. This would aid in misleading young Nicolo.] [Footnote 287: See the elaborate paper by Admiral Zahrtmann, in _Nordisk Tidsskrift for Oldkyndighed_, Copenhagen, 1834, vol. i., and the English translation of it in _Journal of Royal Geographical Society_, London, 1836, vol. v. All that human ingenuity is ever likely to devise against the honesty of Zeno's narrative is presented in this erudite essay, which has been so completely demolished under Mr. Major's heavy strokes that there is not enough of it left to pick up. As to this part of the question, we may now safely cry, "finis, laus Deo!"] [Sidenote: The narrative nowhere makes a claim to the "discovery of America."]