Hudson"* vessel when he was returning down the river, an attack in retaliation for his treacherous act upon this occasion, occurred at Manhattan Island InSpuyten Duyvil Creek, and was clearly made by on the southern shore dians, the Indian fortress in that locality being of the creek. The question, of course, is not important enough to require any serious discussion, but upon its determination depends the fixing of the date of Hudson's entrance into Westchester waters--of that is, the date of discovery of our county and of the mainland

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New York State. To our mind, after a careful study of the records of the voyage, it scarcely admits of doubt that the " Half -Moon's " arrival above Spuyten Duyvil is to be assigned not to the first but to the second day of its progress up the stream.1 Leaving his anchorage below Spuyten Duyvil m the the 14th of September, 1609, Hudson traversed r4Ti on that day the entire Westchester shore, entering the Highlands before nightfall. The record of the day's sailing is thus given in Juet's Journal : " In the morning we sailed up the river twelve leagues . . . and came to a strait between two points, . . . and it (the river) trended north by one league. . . . The river is a mile broad; there is very high land on both sides. Then Ave went up northwest a league and a half, deep w a t e r; t h e n northeast five miles; then n o r t h w e s t b y north two leagues ami a half. The land grew very high and mountainous." The " strait