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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
iagara and St. Lawrence. Its greatest length, north and south, is 312 miles, including Staten Island, while east and west it is 412 miles, including Long Island. It contains 49,170 square miles, in sixty counties. Population 1890, 5,997,853; 1900, 7,268,012. It is the Empire State of the Union in wealth and population. Capital, Albany. Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine, under commission of Francis I. of France, with a single caravel, the Dauphin, enters the bay of New York......April, 1524 Half Moon, eighty tons, leaves Amsterdam; Henry Hudson, an Englishman, commander......April 4, 1609 Samuel de Champlain, coming from the north with a war-party of Hurons, discovers Lake Champlain......July, 1609 Defeats the Iroquois near Ticonderoga; hence dates the enmity between the French and Iroquois; fire-arms first seen by the Indians......July 30, 1609 Half Moon enters New York Bay......Sept. 11, 1609 Anchors just below Albany......Sept. 19, 1609 Despatches a boat