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Книга по требованию: Where Hudson's Voyage Ended, an Inquiry

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Cohoes, and the Origin of the Name (Classic Reprint)

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Год издания: 2015
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Excerpt from Where Hudson's Voyage Ended, an Inquiry: Cohoes, and the Origin of the Name

In this year of our Lord 1909, we hear much about the "Hudson-Fulton Celebration" from writers who fill us with historic lore concerning the lower reaches of the Hudson, Manhattan Island, New Amsterdam and the building by Holland and the reception in New York of a replica of De Halve Maene; and back in our earliest school histories we learned about the entrance into New York harbor, three hundred years ago, of the wonderful little yacht commanded by Henry Hudson, and his memorable cruise up the River of the Mountains, and later we have enjoyed Clerk Juet's diary of every morning whether it were "faire weather" or "mystie, untill the sunne arose." And when he "sayled twelve leagues," and had five fathoms, with the "river full of fish," our ecstacy was unbounded. But,

"At five of the clocke in the afternoone,"
When "the wind came to south southwest.
So wee made a boord or two, and anchored."

we began to feel suspicious; for the phraseology and the rhythm were so like a fragment of one of Dibdin's sea songs that it began to dawn upon us that we were being fed salt-water literature to the exclusion of historical facts relating to the furthest point north on the Hudson where at least five of the crew of the Half Moon, if not all, were privileged to land. From this spot, hallowed by three centuries of ever-changing activities, embracing the age of discovery, the Dutch and English colonial period with its attendant French and Indian wars, the American Revolution, the times of pastoral ease and finally the strenuous commercial life of to-day, the city of Cohoes greets you - Cohoes, the "Spindle City" of New York State, the early home of the historic Mahican, Mohican or Mohegan Indians, a branch of the great Algonquin race and later, by conquest, the eastern portal of the Long House of the Iroquois confederacy.

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