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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
ancient nations, cultivated the art of navigation with highest success. If they rivalled Vasco de Gama, why may they not have anticipated Columbus? And men have seen on rocks in America Phoenician inscriptions and proofs of Phoenician presence; but these disappear before an honest skepticism. Besides, the Carthaginians were historians also; and a Latin poet has preserved for us the Festi Avient Ora Maritima, v. 380-384. express testimony of Himilco, that the abyss beyond the Columns of Hercules was to them interminable, that no mariner of theirs had ever guided a keel into Chap. XXII.} that boundless deep. On a rock by the side of a small New England stream, where, even by the aid of the tides, small vessels can hardly pass, a rude inscription has been made in a natural block of gray granite. By unwarranted interpolations and bold distortions, in defiance of count less improbabilities, the plastic power of fancy transformed the rude etching into a Runic monument; a still mor