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Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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'The Half Moon at the Highlands (the Hudson Highlands) 1609.] HUDSONS RETURN TO ENGLAND. 357 of the great river which she had been the first vessel to ascend ; her disorderly crew were little inclined for any fresh adventures ; and disputes, which continued even after she set sail, had begun, as to her next destination. As she again weighed anchor and sailed across the upper bay, whose shores may have begun already to show the bright colors of autumn foliage, officers and crew wrangled over their plans for the future. The Dutch mate desired to winter in Newfoundland,and explore Davis Straits during the next spring; the crew threatened savagely if they were not taken back to Europe ; and HudsonsHudson feared their violence, and wished besides to carry the November,news of his discoveries at once to Holland. It was not until the yacht had passed through the Kills on her outward route, and had dropped below Sandy Hook, that a compromise was at last effected. It was decided to make first of all for the British Islands, and

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