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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 265

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rd watch, till twelve ofthe clocke at mid-night, we had sound-ings one and twentie, two and twentie, eighteene, twoand twentie, one and twentie, eighteene, and two andtwentie fathoms, and went sixe leagues neere handnorth north-west. The second, in the morning, close weather, the windeat south in… … The Discovery of the Hudson River 231 shoalder and shoalder untill it came to twelve fathoms.We saw a great fire, but could not see the land; thenwe came to ten fathoms, whereupon we brought ourtackes aboord, and stood to the eastward east south-east, foure glasses. Then the sunne arose, and…

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