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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 13 (search)
founding of the New Netherlands. It is translated from Wassenaer's Historie van Europa (Amsterdam, 1621-1632), and is taken from O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New York, vol. III. pp. 27-28, 42-44. I.—Discovery of the Hudson River. [Hudson sailed from Amsterdam, on his third voyage, March 25, 1609. these extracts are from the diary of Robert Juet, one of his men, beginning on the day when they saw sandy hook, at the entrance of what is now New York harbor, Sept. 2, 1609.] Then the sun arose, and we steered away north again, and saw the land from the west by north, to the north-west by north, all like broken islands; Sandy Hook. and our soundings were eleven and ten fathoms. A fathom is six feet. Then we luffed Sailed to windward. in for the shore, and fair by the shore we had seven fathoms. The course along the land we found to be north-east by north from the land which we had first sight of, until we came to a great lake of water, as we co