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ensuring perfect equilibrium."[@KirsNor98, 35] "Accordingly, when Europeans
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heard about the New World, they anticipated that it would contain at least an
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embryonic counterpart of features of the geography and human behavior of the
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Old World."[@KirsNor99, 35] This may have contributed to the city's association
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Old World."[@KirsNor98, 35] This may have contributed to the city's association
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with more civilized inhabitants.
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# How the Myth Found new Popularity in the Late 19th Century
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# Conclusion
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The myth of Norumbega saw a brief resurgence in late 19th century Boston. Eben
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Norton Horsford was a chemist working in Boston, best known for his work in
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baking powder.[@HorsBread61] Throughout his life, however, he showed some
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interest in history and archaeology. He would collect fossils around his
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father's farm in Moscow (now Leister) New York where he grew up,[@JackHors92,
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340] and expressed interest in learning the language of the Seneca
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Indians[@JackHors92, 340], to which his father worked as a
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missionary.[@JackHors92, 103] Later in his life, he would often visit his
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wife's family's estate on Shelter Island, New York.[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104]
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There, he became interested in the island's history and "erected a monument to
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the Quakers, who found shelter there from Puritan
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persecution."[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104] He would later repeat this pattern of
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interest and monument construction in Massachusetts.
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Horsford's first major action on his
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