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foot of man. That night he anchored just above Manhattanville. The flood-tide of the next morning and of evening brought him near Yonkers. On the fourteenth a strong south-east wind wafted him rapidly into the Highlands. At daybreak, on the fifteenth, mists hung over the landscape, but as they rose, the sun revealed the neighborhood of West Point. With a south wind the Half Moon soon emerged from the mountains that rise near the water's edge; sweeping upwards, it passed the elbow at Hyde Park, and at night anchored a little below Red Hook, within the shadow of the majestic Catskill range, which it was noticed stands at a distance from the river. Trafficking with the natives, who were very loving, taking in fresh water, grounding at low tide on a shoal, the Netherlanders, on the evening of the seventeenth, reached no higher than the latitude of about 42°, 18′, just above the present city of Hudson. The next day Hudson went on shore in one of the boats of the natives with an