In the second place, had there been such a change as that suggested by Mr. Babcock, at so recent a date, there must necessarily have been positive geological evidence of it. When a beach rises from the sea, particularly if it be of such great extent as is required in the present case, traces of the former sea-level remain, in the form of raised beaches, water-worn rocks, or remains of marine fauna. In Nova Scotia such things are found indeed, but dating from a period far antecedent to that with which we are at present concerned. The formation appears to be contemporaneous with the existence of some form of mammoth, whose remains have been found, and in many places the course of these beach-deposits is cut through by river valleys which have been formed since. (See Dawson, _Acadian Geology_.) Now if these vestiges, dating from a period antecedent to the existence of human remains, are still to be traced, it is clearly impossible that no evidence should survive of what is alleged to have happened at a date which is, geologically speaking, yesterday. Mr. Babcock’s theory must accordingly be abandoned, in spite of his careful, ingenious, and elaborate argument, and, this being so, we are still faced with an insuperable difficulty in the way of associating Furdustrands with Nova Scotia. _Cape Cod as Keelness._ Now let us turn to the alternative suggested, and consider Cape Cod to be Keelness. Karlsefni has now indeed been brought to a coast meriting the name bestowed, ‘a desolate place, with long beaches and sands.’ Not only does the Cape Cod or Barnstable peninsula, as Horsford saw, comply with the description, but beyond this point the name Furdustrands might appropriately be applied to nearly the whole Atlantic coastline of the United States. Passing the shores and sand-hills of Cape Cod and Monomoy, from Chatham at the heel of the promontory to Nobska Point at the entrance to Buzzard’s Bay, the coast, as the United States _Pilot_ describes it (p. 341), ‘is low and sandy.’ If the course lay to the south of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard the same description would apply. Here there is a slight break formed by the indentations of Buzzard’s and Narragansett Bays, but the former is masked from the sea, until passed, by the Elizabeth Islands, and the latter by the islands at its mouth; the prospect throughout was an unattractive one, and these bays, from the sea, might easily pass unnoticed, while from Point Judith, west of Narragansett Bay, to the entrance of Long Island Sound, by Watch Hill Point, there is still, in the words of the _Coast Pilot_, ‘a low beach with lagoons inside and higher wooded land at the back.’ Until arrival at Straumsfjord, no attempt was made to land. As Mr. Babcock notices, the episode of Hake and Hekja is obviously an interpolation from another source, as no vines had been found up to the time of Thorhall’s versified comments on the subject. We have consequently to look for but one indentation, that presented by