ship's pinnace on a trip to Virginia which he had decided to make Martha's after dispatching his laden vessel back to England.theLeaving coast led me till "as Yh.evard, he shaped his voyage he narrates, coast began to fall away I came to the most westerly part where the my way 1 discovIn Sound]. the to southerly [the eastern entrance ered land about thirty leagues in length [Long Island], heretofore taken for main where I feared 1 had been embayed, but by the help of an Indian 1 got to sea again, through many crooked and straight passages. I let pass many accidents in this journey occasioned by treachery where we were twice compelled to go together by the ears; once the savages had great advantage of us in a strait, not above a bow-shot [wide], and where a great multitude of Indians let fly at us

from the bank; but it pleased God to make us victors. Near unto this ocwe found a most dangerous cataract amongst small, rocky islands, casioned bytwo unequal tides, the one ebbing and flowing two hours before the other." An excellent Westchester historian, commenting the place where the Indians " let fly " upon this description, identifies ous cataract" being, of course, Hell as Throgg's Point (the -danger < rai e i . and adds the following appropriate remarks : " Such was the Long Island vovage of the first Englishman who ever sailed throughof Westches ter Sound, and the first who ever beheld the eastern shores sailed had Block skipper Dutch the County. This was five years after through the same Sound from the Manhattans, and ten years after singuHudson's discovery of the Great River of the Mountains. Very lar it is that fights with the Indians, both on the Hudson and on the Sound, and at 'points nearly opposite each other, were the beginning of civilization in Westchester County, and that the first was with the Dutch and the second with the English, the two races of whites which, in succession, ruled that county and the Province and State of New York."1 De Lancey's Hist, of the Manors (Scliarf, i.. 10).