Dec 15, 1909
I have personally made a topogrphical examination of the place where the Kensington rune stone was found, and of the region northward to Pelican Lake where the skerries are located to which the inscriptioin refers, and I am convinced from the geological conditions and the physical changes that the region has experienced probably within the last five hundred years that the said stone is not a modern forgery, and must be accepted as a genuine record of exploration in Minnesota at the date stated in the inscription.