The Hudson . style agang-plank of history reaching as it does from the old-timeyacht to the modern steamer, and spanning almost three hundredyears. Its Discovery.—In the year 1524, thirty-two years after thediscovery of America, the navigator Verrazzani, a French offi-cer, anchored off the island of Manhattan and proceeded a shortdistance up the river. The following year, Gomez, a Portu-guese in the employ of Spain, coasted along the continent andentered the Narrows. Several Dutch captains also visited ournoble bay about 1598, but it was reserved for Hendrich Hudson,with a mixed crew of eighte
The Hudson . style agang-plank of history reaching as it does from the old-timeyacht to the modern steamer, and spanning almost three hundredyears. Its Discovery.—In the year 1524, thirty-two years after thediscovery of America, the navigator Verrazzani, a French offi-cer, anchored off the island of Manhattan and proceeded a shortdistance up the river. The following year, Gomez, a Portu-guese in the employ of Spain, coasted along the continent andentered the Narrows. Several Dutch captains also visited ournoble bay about 1598, but it was reserved for Hendrich Hudson,with a mixed crew of eighteen or twenty men in the HalfMoon, to explore the river from Sandy Hook to Albany, andcarry back to Europe a description of its beauty. He had alreadymade two voyages for the Muscovy Company—an English cor-poration—in quest of a passage to China, via the North Pole andNova Zembla. In the autumn of 1608 he was called to Amsterdam, and sailedfrom Texel, April 5, 1609, in the service of the Dutch East India. THE HUDSON. 19 Company. Reaching- Cape Cod August 6, and Chesapeake BayAugust 28th, he coasted north to Sandy Hook. He entered the Bayof New York September the 3d, passed through the Narrows, andanchored in what is now called Newark Bay; on the 12th re-sumed his voyage, and, drifting- with the tide, remained overnio-ht on the 13th about three miles above the northern end ofManhattan Island ; on the 14th sailed through what is now knownas Tappan Zee and Haverstraw Bay, entered the Highlands andanchored for the night near the present dock of West Point. Onthe morning of the 15th beheld Newburgh Bay, reached Catskill>n the 16th, Athens on the 17th, Castleton and Albany on the18th, and then sent out an exploring- boat as far as became thoroug-hly satisfied that this route did not lead toChina—a conclusion in harmony with that of Champlain, who,the same summer, had been making- his way south, throughLake Champlain and Lake George, in quest of the South Sea. T
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