New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . III MAYOR-1875-1876 NEW BEDFORD. CHAPTER I. PAGES OF AY 31, 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold,with a small party of EngHshmen,sailed from the little island of Cutty-hunk to the main land borderino- onthe stately sound which he calledGosnolds Hope, but to which haspersistently clung the less poetic ap-pellation 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
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . III MAYOR-1875-1876 NEW BEDFORD. CHAPTER I. PAGES OF AY 31, 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold,with a small party of EngHshmen,sailed from the little island of Cutty-hunk to the main land borderino- onthe stately sound which he calledGosnolds Hope, but to which haspersistently clung the less poetic ap-pellation 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 party 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 may apply as well to theappearance of our own harbor in those days. It is said by an earlyhistorian that the stately groves, flowering meadows and running-brooks afforded delightful entertainment to the adventurers, and oneof the visitors, writing of the
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