Prince Henry Sinclair Part V

According to the owners, they felt based on family legends Europeans were settled on the hilltop before the time of Christ. They were prospecting gold which they used to finance Stuart dynasty military operations and other dynasty ventures during the middle ages.

The Norse came to the same hilltop years later. The Norse were related to the Stuarts of Scotland and built a village over the earlier site. They built what she believes is the lost city of Norumbega. The Norse site was built after Columbus but well before any European occupation. This was essentially a safe house for Royal members of the Stuart dynasty.

When a area is deemed historic in Nova Scotia, it becomes under government control. Which means people can be forced to move and loose their properties, real estate values take a nose dive and in general tension is running high in this village. This property has come to be known as the castle at the cross.

The island in the bay is of course the infamous Oak Island. I will be presenting this in a separate post within the next few days. There are two Oak islands at the end of the rivers . These are landmarks. The significant thing about Oak Island as it relates to this story is that the “Money Pit” is essentially a sinkhole 250' deep with a cavern at the bottom.

 Mining companies have entered it with fiber optic cameras and located a body. They believed they have discovered two wooden chests with metal in them and a small piece of parchment has been retrieved.

 Everybody suspects this is a location of the Holy Grail and also pirate treasure specifically Captain Kids lost Treasure. But there is significant possibility that it goes back to Ancient times.

 The original wooden beams are spruce timbers dating to 800 BC. If there was oak on the island these also would date to that time era. I will also be presenting this in a separate post within the next few days.

 There are two Oak islands at the ends of the rivers . These are landmarks. The significant thing about Oak Island as it relates to this story is that the “Money Pit” is essentially a sinkhole 250' deep with a cavern at the bottom. It takes 200 years for oak to mature. It is felt if there was oak on the island when Prince Henry was there he would have used it.

 The oak platforms are dating to the 1600's, the time area of piracy. If Prince Henry planted oak tree's in the early 1400's, as markers for the river entrance, they would have been matured by the age of Piracy in the 1600's. 

 Also as you might imagine, there would be quite a significant reason, for Henry to go through this much work, if the Oak Island location wasn't extremely significant.

 Also on this subject if you haven't ever approached a island with out charts, trying to locate landmarks, separating small coves and bays from streams and rivers in the foggiest spot on the earth, well you just haven't lived!

 The warm gulf stream comes up from the gulf of Mexico, its warm full of fish and birds flying around sailors know when they are in it. This is why Florida has such warm waters full of fish and corals. As it moves north at four knots, its like a river in the middle of a ocean. If you get a stiff breeze going against this current, well just review some of the stories of the Bermuda Triangle, like I said, you haven't lived until you've messed around with the gulf stream.

 As the gulf stream flows north at 4 kts, which is fast, most sail boaters wished they averaged 4 kts on a voyage. The cold Labrador current is coming south from Canada, across the grand banks, and down the Jersey coast.

 This is why the waters of New England, Long Island, Atlantic City and the Maryland beaches have frigid waters. Also on this subject if you haven't ever approached a island with out charts, trying to locate landmarks, separating small coves and bays from streams and rivers in the foggiest spot on the earth, well you just haven't lived!

 The warm gulf stream comes up from the gulf of Mexico, its warm full of fish and birds flying around sailors know when they are in it. This is why Florida has such warm waters full of fish and corals.

  As it moves north at four knots, its like a river in the middle of a ocean. If you get a stiff breeze going against this current, well just review some of the stories of the Bermuda Triangle, like I said, you haven't lived until you've messed around with the gulf stream.

 As the gulf stream flows north at 4 kts, which is fast, most sail boaters wished they averaged 4kts on a voyage, the cold Labrador current is coming south from Canada, across the grand banks, and down the Jersey coast, which is why the waters of New England, Long Island, Atlantic City and the Maryland beaches have frigid waters.

 These two ocean rivers bump into each other off of the outer banks of North Carolina the 21 mile stretch of area that Cape Lookout serves is known as Horrible Headlands.

 The cold and warm waters mix, the fog is as thick as pea soup, the large ocean waves have been coming from Europe non stop. They are driven by strong currents with 50 kt storm gales running against them, yep you haven't lived until you've messed with North Carolina.

 Meantime the gulf stream is running north about 70 miles off the coast of Maryland, that’s where the charter skippers take you fishing. Heading for the grand banks where these streams once again converge and the fogs that occur in the gulf of Maine and the Grand Banks, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland are legendary.

 However the explorers in the age of discovery didn't have weather satellites, NOAA, buoys and maritime radio's. They frequently send half a dozen ships on voyages and don't expect them to all make it. 

 Nova Scotia is not sailor friendly waters, when you run aground, and your not considered a sailor until you have run aground, it's granite. Mud, sand, coral you can plow through and mess up your paint job, the coasts of Canada, Maine and New England, well that's ugly.

  When your approaching a coastline and your looking for a river entrance, it doesn't look like a river it looks like the shore line has taken a curve, or it looks like a bay, the river may be ½ mile wide inland but becomes extremely wide at the entrance.

 I believe the Amazon is 200 miles wide, and the float-some that comes out of that river fifty miles out to sea is incredible. Even the color of the water can be brown after heavy rain storms and flooding.

  You frequently have not one river entrance, but several, which all look the same, especially in my home waters of the Chesapeake bay, and Bay of Fundy is an absolute challenge, it separates the sailors from the wanna be sailors.

 This is why Oak Island has oaks on it. They are the only islands within hundreds of miles that have oak on them. Next question for you, Why two Oak Islands , brush up on Trig, next lesson is celestial navigation before time pieces were invented.

Damn, I digressed again, OK, class is out!

 When the French arrived in the early 1600's they were the first to report this form of communication that the Micmac were using. It was quite unique for a group of people living at the level of cave men, actually frequently they did live in caves.

  It wasn't until relatively recently that Professor Barry Fell of Harvard University performed a comparison to Egyptian script and also North African ancient script's and he concluded that they were Egyptian and more specifically North African in nature.

 An interesting observation is that there were symbols for silver and gold, however the Micmac were at the level of the stone age people's and didn't have any metals at all in their culture. 

 They hadn't any tools or weapons that were metal. However when Champlain surveyed the area that the Micmac were prominent in, specifically Nova Scotia and especially around the headwaters of the Bay of Fundy, there were so many gold mines silver mines and copper mines even the small bay off the head of Fundy was called the golden bay, because it has a golden hue. It was appropriately named Minas Basin, or Bay of Mines.

Copper had been imported to Europe primarily Great Britain during the Bronze Age between 3300 and 1200 BC. Copper was smelted with tin to make Bronze. This was most commonly done by Jewish tin miners in Cornwall and Devon areas in Briton.

 The Bronze Age is placed between the stone age and the Iron Age, 3300 BC to 1200 BC. Its the 2nd phase of a three tier system of classification and studying of ancient societies. A region could be in the Bronze Age either by smelting their own tin and copper or by trading with those production areas that did.