New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions . AY 31, 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold,with a small party of Englishmen,sailed from the little island of Cuttv-hunk to the main land bordering- onthe Stately sound which he calledGosnolds Hope, but to which haspersistently clung the less poetic ap-pelladon of a later date, BuzzardsBay. It has usually been taken forgranted that the discoverers sailed upthe Acushnet river, and landed onthe shore where the city of New Bedford is now located. Of this theremay be some doubt, for the narrative of one of the partv indicat
New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions . AY 31, 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold,with a small party of Englishmen,sailed from the little island of Cuttv-hunk to the main land bordering- onthe Stately sound which he calledGosnolds Hope, but to which haspersistently clung the less poetic ap-pelladon of a later date, BuzzardsBay. It has usually been taken forgranted that the discoverers sailed upthe Acushnet river, and landed onthe shore where the city of New Bedford is now located. Of this theremay be some doubt, for the narrative of one of the partv indicatesthat the harbors found by Gosnold and his companions were twowhich are west of the Acushnet river. However this may be, it iscertain that they were not far from this locality, and the descrip-tions given by the English explorers mav applv as well to theapj)e;irance of our own harbor in those daws. It is said b\ an earhhistorian that the stately groves, llowering meadows and runningbrooks afforded delightful entertainment to the adventurers, and oneof the visitors, writing of the
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