A few examples of such passages may here be given: _Cartier._—(Brion Island.) ‘We found it full of goodly trees, meadows, fields of wild corn.’ (North Point, Prince Edward Island.) ‘We landed there this day in four places to see the trees, which are wonderfully fair, &c.,—many others to us unknown.—The lands where there are no woods are very fair, and all so full of wild corn, like rye, that it seems to have been sown and cultivated there.’ (Baye de Chaleur.) ‘Their land is more temperate in heat than the land of Spain—and there is not here any little spot void of woods and made up of sand, which may not be full of wild grain, which has an ear like rye, and the kernel like oats.’ (St. Lawrence River.) ‘On both sides of it we found the fairest and best lands to look at that it may be possible to behold—full of the goodliest trees in the world, and so many vines loaded with grapes along the said river that it seems that they may rather have been planted there by the hand of man than otherwise: but because they are not cultivated nor pruned, the grapes are not so big and sweet as ours.’ Again, ‘Finest trees in the world: to wit, oaks, elms, &c., and, what are better, a great many vines, which had so great abundance of grapes that the crew came aboard all loaded down with them.’ _Champlain._—(Richmond Island.) ‘Many vineyards bearing beautiful grapes in their season.’ (Cape Anne.) ‘We found in this place a great many vines, the green grapes on which were a little larger than peas.’ (Gloucester Bay.) ‘We saw some very fine grapes just ripe.’ _Charles Leigh._—‘Concerning the nature and fruitfulnesse of Brion’s Island, Isle Blanche, and of Ramea, they do by nature yeeld exceeding plenty of wood, great store of wild corne like barley, &c.’ _Hudson._—(Near Cape Cod.) ‘They went on land, and found goodly grapes and rose-trees, and brought them aboard with them.’ _Denys._—(St. John’s River.) ‘There is found here also a great quantity of wild grapes.’ It may further be noticed that both Champlain and Cartier conferred on different places the name Île de Bacchus, from the circumstance that grapes were found there. This name, particularly as it is used of different localities, seems quite as much open to Dr. Nansen’s attack as the Norsemen’s Vínland hit Goða. One can imagine the force with which the eminent explorer could point out the manifest connexion with classical sources, and the close resemblance between this nomenclature and that of the legendary islands from which he thinks the Norsemen drew their vines. If then the resemblance in these cases is fortuitous, as it clearly is, what becomes of Dr. Nansen’s argument? _The Corn._