Abstract of the elements of U S history . ollections for a completer history of Londonderry. The Scotch Presbyterians who came to the various American colonies from Ireland hadsuch distinct antecedents and traditions that the special Scotch-Irish history and literatureare considerable. There is an important Scotch-Irish Society, and the Proceedings of itsannual congresses from i8Sy on are important volumes. The paper by Professor Arthur , in vol. ii , on The Scotch-Irish of New England,—which has also been publishedin completer form as a pamphlet, —touches the history to which the prese
Abstract of the elements of U S history . ollections for a completer history of Londonderry. The Scotch Presbyterians who came to the various American colonies from Ireland hadsuch distinct antecedents and traditions that the special Scotch-Irish history and literatureare considerable. There is an important Scotch-Irish Society, and the Proceedings of itsannual congresses from i8Sy on are important volumes. The paper by Professor Arthur , in vol. ii , on The Scotch-Irish of New England,—which has also been publishedin completer form as a pamphlet, —touches the history to which the present leaflet Scotch-Irish in America, by Samuel Sweet (ireen, is a comprehensive summary, firstread before the American Antiquarian Society in 1895, and published in the societys Pro-ceedings, and republished in pamphlet form, with an interesting correspondence betweenthe author and Mr. Thomas Hamilton Murray, upon the term Scotch-Irish. PUBLISHED BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE OLD SOUTH WORK,Old South Meeting-house, Boston, <©Iti .^DUtJ) Hcaflet^ No. 94- The Discovery of theHudson River. From The Third Voyage of Master Henry Hudson, towardNova Zembla, and at his Returns, his Passing from FarreIslands to New-found Land, and along to Fortie-foureDegrees and Ten Minutes, and thence to Cape Cod, andso TO Thirtie-three Degrees; and along the Coast to theNorthward, to Fortie-two Degrees and an Halfe, and upTHE River Neere to Fortie-three Degrees. Written byRobert Ji^et of Lime-house. \\\^ first of September [1609], faire weather, the wind varia-ble betweene east and south; we steered away north north-west. At noone we found our height to bee 39 degrees, 3minutes. Wee had soundings thirtie, twentie-seven, twentie-foure, and twentie-two fathomes, as wee went to the north-ward. At sixe of the clocke wee had one and twentie fath-omes. And all the third watch, till twelve of the clocke atmid-night, we had soundings one and twentie, two and twen-tie, eighteene, two and t
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