Excerpt from Early New York: An Address Hendrick Hudson, the old Dutch navigator, sailing along the coast in his vessel, the Half Moon, in a vain search for the Northwest passage to somewhere, he did not have the least idea where, discovered the beautiful bay and river to which he gave his name. This is accepted history just as it is written for our guileless and unsuspicious youth, only it contains a few errors. Hendrick Hudson was not a Dutch navigator at all, but an English one; his name was not Hendrick, but Henry. He ...
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Excerpt from Early New York: An Address Hendrick Hudson, the old Dutch navigator, sailing along the coast in his vessel, the Half Moon, in a vain search for the Northwest passage to somewhere, he did not have the least idea where, discovered the beautiful bay and river to which he gave his name. This is accepted history just as it is written for our guileless and unsuspicious youth, only it contains a few errors. Hendrick Hudson was not a Dutch navigator at all, but an English one; his name was not Hendrick, but Henry. He did not discover the bay or river, both of which had been dis covered by the Florentine sailor Verrazano in 1529, and by the hardy Norsemen before him. We rarely call either the river or bay after Hudson in these times, one being the North River, the other New York Bay, so perhaps it doesn't much matter after all whether he discovered them or not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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