Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . nd the land on the souther side of the bay or inletdid beare at noone west and by south foure leaguesfrom us. The fifth was faire weather, and the wind variablebetweene the north and the east. Wee held on ourcourse south-east by east. At noone I observed andfound our height to bee 39 degrees, 30 minutes. Ourcompasse varied sixe degrees to the west. We continued our course toward England withoutseeing any land by the way, all the rest of thismoneth of October ; and on the seventh day of Novem-ber, stilo novo, being Saturday, by the grace o
Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . nd the land on the souther side of the bay or inletdid beare at noone west and by south foure leaguesfrom us. The fifth was faire weather, and the wind variablebetweene the north and the east. Wee held on ourcourse south-east by east. At noone I observed andfound our height to bee 39 degrees, 30 minutes. Ourcompasse varied sixe degrees to the west. We continued our course toward England withoutseeing any land by the way, all the rest of thismoneth of October ; and on the seventh day of Novem-ber, stilo novo, being Saturday, by the grace of Godwe safely arrived in the range of Dartmouth, Devon-shire, in the yeere 1609. Thus is concluded the log of the Half Moon, askept by Robert Juet, the mate of the vessel. Itsquaint phraseology, quainter spelling and picturesqueaccounts of the celebrated voyage paint a splendid pic-ture of the famous river, its shores and waters and of the savage, yet friendly, people who dwelt upon its banks. 166 Governor * & * * George Clinton Seventeenth Paper. HE days of the Minute Men wereover. No longer did the patriotsrespond to the call TO ARMS !The war had settled into a contestin which the victors would be thosewho could tire out their has long been placed to his credit as a military that General Washington early recognized thatGreat Britain could not continue for many years a warof conquest of her rebellious colonies three thousandmiles away from home and from her base of the Americans could but continue to prolong thestruggle they must win in the end. But the ardor with which the patriots sprang intothe fight had been dissipated long ago. It was difficultto obtain soldiers, except to call out the militia for thedefense of homes when there was an actual when they were thus called, and when theyresponded, they were impatient of restraint, impatientof drill, impatient of inactive service. It had beenfound necessary to recruit an army of
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