Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-12-16


pairing to Holland, he offered his services
TO the Dutch East India Company, t.
explore the icy waters in search Of tht
coveted passage. The voyage Of Smitl
TO Virginia stimulated desire the Zea
landers fearing the loss of treasure ob
Jected; but by the influence o fBalthaze
Moucheron, the directors of Amsterdam
resolved on equipping small vessel o
discovery, and on the fourth day o
April, 1909. The Crescent, commanded
by Hudson, and manned by mixed crew
OF Englishmen and Hollanders, his only
son being of the number, sci sail for The
north western passage.
Masses Office impeded the navigation
towards Nova Zembla; Hudson wht
had examined the maps of John SmitI
of Virginia, turned to the west and pas
sing beyond Greenland and Newiound
land, and running down the coast of Aca
dia, he anchored, probably, in the mouth
OF the Penobscot. Then following the
tracko Goswold, he came upon the pro.
monlory Of Cape Cod, and, believing him.
self its first dscoverer, gave it the name
of New Holland. Long afterwards i,
was claimed as the north eastern boun.
day Of New Netherlands. From the
sands Of Cape Cod he steered south
erly course till he was opposite the en-.
trance into the bay of Of Virginia, where
Hudson remembered his countrvmen
were planted. Then turning again to the
north, he discovered the Delaware Bay
examined its currents and its soundings
and without going on shore, took note OF
the aspect Of the country.
On the third day of September, almost
at the time when ChampIain was inva-
ding New York from the north, less
than five years after the truce with
Spain, (April 0th) which gave the Ne,h-
erlands diplomatic existance as state,
the Crescent anchored within Sandy
Hook, t609) and from the neighbor-
nG shores, that were crowned with
"goodly oaks" attracted frequent WIS.,
its of the natives. After weeks delay,
Hudson sailed through the Narrows,
and at the mouth of the river anchored
IN a harbor which was pronounced to be
very good for all winds. Of the SUR
rounding lands, the luxuriant grass, the
flowers, the trees, the grateful fragrance,
were admired. Ten days were en-
ployed in exploring the river; the first
of Europeans, Hudson went sounding
his, way above the Highlands, till at last
the Crescent had sailed some miles be-
yond the city of Hudson, and boat had
advanced little beyond Albany. Ere
luent intercourse was held with the as
'onished natives ofthe Algonquin race ;
and the strangers were welcomed by
1eputation Of the Mowhawhs. Hav.
ng completed his discovery, Hudson de-
'cended the stream to which he has Civ
IN his name; and on the fourth of Oc,o-
Der, about the season of the return of
John Smith to England, he set sail for
Europe, leaving once more to its solitude
he land of his Imagination, anticipating
he future, described as the "most beau
iful in the world"
Sombre forests shed melancholy
grandeur over the useless magnificence
# nature, and in their deep shades the
ich soil which the sun had never
warmed. No AK had leveled the giant
progeny Of The crowded groves, in which
he fantastic forms of withered limbs,
hat had been blasted and riven by
ightnng, contrasted strangely with the
7erdant freshness of a younger growth
f branches. The wanton grapevine,
eeming by its own power to have
prung from the earth, and to have ias-
ened its lealy coils on the top of the tai
est forest-trce, swung in the air with
very breeze, like the loosened shrouds
f ship, Trees might every where be
cen breaking from the root in the mar
by soil, and threatening to fall with the
rst rude gust, while the ground was
trown with the ruins of former for
sts, over wich profusioh of wild
overs wasted their freshness in
,ockery of the gloom.-Reptiles
ported in the stagnant pools, or crawlA
d unharmed over piles of moulder-
'g trees. The spotted deer couched
nong the thickets; but not to hide
n there was no pursuer and there
ere none but wild animals to crop the
ncut herbage of the productive prai-
es. Silence reigned, broken it may
i've been, by the flight Of land birds, or
G Tapping Of Waterfowl, and rendered
ore dismal by the bowling ofbeasts of
'ey. The streams not vet limited to a