. Annual report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the legislature of the State of New y the luxury of a palace and with almostas little danger as ho can mako a journey on land, it is difficultto imagine the state of human knowledge three centuries ago,when vast seas and continents were unexplored and when theperils of the ocean wero so great that the rituals of the ancientchurches provided special prayers for those avIio went down to thesea in ships. It is one of the beneficent uses of great anniver-saries, therefore, that we are stimulated by them to bring bac
. Annual report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the legislature of the State of New y the luxury of a palace and with almostas little danger as ho can mako a journey on land, it is difficultto imagine the state of human knowledge three centuries ago,when vast seas and continents were unexplored and when theperils of the ocean wero so great that the rituals of the ancientchurches provided special prayers for those avIio went down to thesea in ships. It is one of the beneficent uses of great anniver-saries, therefore, that we are stimulated by them to bring back inimagination the conditions of earlier generations, and learn toappreciate not only the bravery of Civilizations frontiersmen, butalso our inestimable heritage from the past and our duty to thosewho shall come after us. For permission to reprint verbatim certain paragraphs from theoriginal copyrighted brochure entitled Hudson and Fulton weare indebted to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission; andfor the plans of the Half Moon we are under obligations to Rear-Admiral J. A. Roell of the Royal Netherlands Last Voyage of Henry Hudson. From painting by Hon. John Collier in the Xational Gallery of BritishArt (or Tate Gallery). London, Eng. It represents Hudson and compan-ions abandoned by his mutinous crew in Hudson Bay, June 22, 1011. Seepage 253. HENRY HUDSON AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE HUDSON RIVER. CHAPTER I. Geographical Knowledge in Hudsons Day. Between September 2 and October 4, 1600, Henry Hudson, anEnglish navigator sailing under Dutch auspices, explored theriver which bears his name in what is now called the State ofNew York. To realize the importance of that voyage, it is necessary to re-call the incomplete state of geographical knowledge of America300 years ago, and the extremely slight hold which Europeancivilization had upon this continent at that time. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, European ac-quaintance with North and South America, with except
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