From the former Manhattan, and from it also the name of the Indians "among whom " the Dutch made settlement in 1623-4, otherwise known by the general name of Wickquaskecks, as well as the name of the entire Dutch possessions.' Presumably the entries on the Spanish-English map were copied from Hudson's chart, for which there was ample time after his return to England. Possibly they may have been copied by Hudson, who wrote that his voyage " had been suggested " by some " letters and maps " which " had been sent to him " by Capt. Smith from Virginia. Evidently the notations are English, and evidently, also, Hudson, or his mate, Juet,

subsequently known as Fort Orange, at the mouth of the Tawalsentha, or Norman's Kill, about two miles south of the present State street, Albany, and that Castle Island took that name from the French chateau -- all of which is possible, but for conclusive reasons why it should not be credited, the student may consult " Norumbega " in Winsor's " Narrative and Critical History of America." Wrote Dr. Trumbull : " Theuet, in La Cosntographie Universella, gives an account of his visit, in 1656, to ' one of the finest rivers in the whole world, which we call Norumbeque, and the aboriginees Agoncy,' now Penobscot Bay." ^ Brown's " Genesis of the United States," 2>27, 457, 459, ii, 80. ' Colonial History of New York.

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had a chart from his own tracing or from that of a previous explorer, which he forwarded to his employers, or of which they had a copy, when he wrote in his Journal : " On that side of the river called Mannahata;' as a reference by which his employers could identify the side of the river on which the Half-Moon anchored,' Presumably the chart was drawn by Hudson and forwarded with his report, and that to him belong-s the honor of reducing to an orthographic form the first aboriginal name of record on the river which now bears his name.