Address on the History of the Boundaries of the State of Delaware (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Address on the History of the Boundaries of the State of DelawareShores, and of the rivers ¿owing into it, had been explored as early as the year following. In the year following that, or in 1609, the fearless and intrepid navigator, Captain Henry Hudson, an Englishman, but then sailing under the flag of the United Netherlands, and in command of a ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company, in seeking the capes of the Chesapeake with the View of touching at Jamestown for provisions, missed them, and bearing north ward along the coast, in full View Of the land and the long line of lofty forests in full leaf which then overshadowed the solitude of the unknown shore, on the 28th day of August in that year discovered for the first time'in the annals of history the capes of the Delaware, which he entered about noon, and, after spending the rest of the day and night on the bosom of our bay, sailed early the next morning, and, still standing northward along the coast, in six days afterwards discovered and entered the Bay of New York. He lingered there for several weeks, and long enough to explore the surrounding shores and the Hudson River as high as the site of the city of Albany.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.