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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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# References
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- Also has religious elements, just as the Norumbega myth & Protestantism
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vs. Catholicism.
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## Baking Powder
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-
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## Later Life and Interest in Norumbega
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- "In the comparative leisure of his later years he became deeply interested in
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editor = {New England Historic Genealogical Society},
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year = {1908},
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publisher = {New England Historic Genealogical Society},
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address = {Boston, MA},
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address = {Boston, Massachusetts},
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volume = {9},
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pages = {103--105},
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}
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title = {These Truths: A History of the United States},
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year = {2018},
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publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Company, Inc.},
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address = {New York, N.Y.},
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address = {New York City, New York},
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annote = {Review: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/indimagahist.115.4.08.}
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}
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year = {1998},
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annote = {From a peer reviewed academic journal, on JSTOR.},
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}
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% https://archive.org/details/theoryartofbread00hors/
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@book{HorsBread61,
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author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
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title = {The Theory and Art of Bread-Making. A New Process Without the use of Fermet},
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year = {1861},
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publisher = {Welsh Bigelow \& Co.},
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address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
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annote = {A primary source, written by Horsford.}
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}
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% https://archive.org/details/problemofnorthme00hors/page/n9/mode/2up
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@book{HorsProb89,
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author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
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title = {The Problem of the Northmen},
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year = {1889},
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publisher = {John Wilson and Son},
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address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
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annote = {A primary source, written by Horsford.}
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}
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% https://archive.org/details/discoveryofameri00hors/page/n9/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
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@book{HorsDisc87,
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author = {Eben Norton Horsford},
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title = {Discovery of America by Northmen},
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year = {1888},
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publisher = {The Riverside Press},
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address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
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annote = {A primary source, originally delivered orally by Horsford at the dedication of a statue of Lief Ericson in Faneuil Hall, 1887.}
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}
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