It boldly projects at the entrance of the Zee, and in a bright summer's day may be seen casting its shade upon the waters. a- A very deep interest attaches itself to this spot, when we recollect, that on the afternoon of the 13th Sep., 1609, Hendrick Hudson "takino- advantage of a light wind and flood tide, anchored the " Halve Maen"'' near where the village pier projects into the Hudson. The old Dutch Patroon of this town, Adriaen van der Donck, in his N. Nelh. Vertoo^h, (a rare old book printed just 41 years after the discovery of Hudson) tells us what our native tribes thought when they for the first time saw this wondrous vessel." '

" They did not know there were any more people in the world than of the same with themselves : much less people who differ so widely from each other as our nation and theirs ; so that, when they first discovered our ship, they did not know what to make of it. They were in great fear, and knew not whether it might not be an apparition ; but whether from Heaven or Hell they could not divine. Others supposed it to be a great sea monster, and that those in it had more the appearance of devils than human beings, at least a strange report circulated through the country and caused a great consternation among them.'

What must have been the wonder then, of the Nap-pe-ckamak settlement, when they beheld the apparition anchor off the mouth of the Saw mill, especially when we conjure up old Master Hendrick Hudson standing upon the poop of his round built yatch, and Master Robert Juet and brother officers in their tall shovelled brim hats and doublets. This arrival must have created quite a talk among the Mohegan squaws of Nappeckaa Mr.