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Home / Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. / Passage

The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. 272 words

Their charter gave them territorial dominion, and the country, called New Netherland, was made a county of Holland. The seal bore the representation of a beaver rampant-- an animal very valuable for its fur, and then abundant. The seal of the city of New York (seen in the engraving) has the beaver in one of its quartermgs. New Amsterdam remained in tlie possession of the Dutch until 1664, when it was surrendered into the hands of the English, on demand being made, in the presence of

numerous ships of war, laden with land troops. Then the name was changed from New Amsterdam to New Y'ork, in honour of James, Duke of York, afterwards James II., to whom the whole domain liad been granted by his profligate brother, King Charles.

SEALS OF NEW .

AND NEW YORK.

THE HUDSON.

disturbed their repose, and made society alarmingly cosmopolitan. This feature increased with the lapse of time ; and now that little Dutch trading village two hundred years ago-grown into a vast commercial metropolis, and ranking among the most populous cities of the worldcontains representatives of almost every nation on the face of the earth. Broadway, the famous street of commercial palaces, terminates at a

DUTCH MANSION AND COTTAGE IN NEW AJISTEEDAM.

shaded mall and green, called -The Battery," a name derived from fortifications that once existed there. The first fort erected on Manhattan Island, by the Dutch, was on the banks of the Hudson, at its mouth, in the rear of Trinity Church. The next was built upon the site of the Bowling Green, at the foot of Broadway. These were on eminences over-

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