Mary Isabella Forsyth
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 74
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Excerpt from The Beginnings of New York: Kingston the First State Capital When the report of the first exploration of the Hudson reached Holland it immediately called forth action on the part of the enterprising Dutch traders. It was at the time when Holland "swept the seas," both from a naval and commercial point of view. So, in the year following the ascent of the "North River" by the Half Moon, the trade of what is now New York began; continuing from that time, 1610, with ever increasing impetus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.