. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. merable shoals, navigate a ship of eighty tons, whichdrew too much water for the bars of the Delaware and hesi-tated and grounded at Sandy Hook with its ten feet ofwater, to the vicinity of Albany, and thence send a smallboat twenty-four miles or more up the rapids. All are agreed that through the day and night of Septem-ber 16th, the Half Moon was at anchor within near view ofthe Catskill Mountains, possibly near Catskill, possiblyTivoli. There, Juet narrates, ^We found very loving peopleand very old men and were well us
. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. merable shoals, navigate a ship of eighty tons, whichdrew too much water for the bars of the Delaware and hesi-tated and grounded at Sandy Hook with its ten feet ofwater, to the vicinity of Albany, and thence send a smallboat twenty-four miles or more up the rapids. All are agreed that through the day and night of Septem-ber 16th, the Half Moon was at anchor within near view ofthe Catskill Mountains, possibly near Catskill, possiblyTivoli. There, Juet narrates, ^We found very loving peopleand very old men and were well used. The natives suppliedthem with Indian corn, pumpkins, and tobacco. The nextday tortuous channels and many shoals, with which allnavigators of the Hudson are familiar, made progress diffi-cult and slow. They ran only six leagues higher. TheHalf Moon grounded twice but was heaved off and finallysafely anchored, where it remained about a day and a latitude, according to De Laet, was 42° 18, approxi-mately, as we have already said, that of the mouth of Stock-. The Half Moon in Kinderhook Waters From a photograph
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