 | New-York Historical Society - 1841 - 518 pagine
...off us we saw high hills.t For the day before we found not above two degrees of variation. This is very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see. Sept. 3. The morning misty until ten o'clock, then it cleared, and the wind came to the south-south-east,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 pagine
...to sea arrived on the 2d of September in sight of the " high hills " of Neversink, pronouncing it "a good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see," and on the following morning, sending his boat before him to sound the way, passed Sandy Hook, and... | |
 | DAVID T.VALENTINE - 1853 - 428 pagine
...of country thus passed by. On the 1st of September, 1609, he discovered the Highlands of Never sink, described by him as a " very good land to fall in...designs of their visitors, for, whether by tradition or rumor from other lands, they seem to have been acquainted with the articles of trade, most in use,... | |
 | JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD - 1853 - 838 pagine
...evening of the second of 2 Sept. September, in sight of the "high hills" of Navesinck, then, as now, " a very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see." The next morning he sailed onward until 3 Sept he came to " three great rivers," the most northerly of which... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1853 - 734 pagine
...to the Highlands of Neversink, the first land seen by those who approach New York from the sea—"a good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see," says the journal—a sentiment echoed, in succeeding centuries, by many an anxious and sea-worn mariner.... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1855 - 738 pagine
...the Highlands of Neversink, the first land seen by those who approach New York from the sea — "a good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see," says the journal — -a sentiment echoed, in succeeding centuries, by many an anxious and sea-worn... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1858 - 614 pagine
...Bay and arriving in sight of the 'highlands of Neversink on the 2d of September. This he pronounced a "good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see." The next morning he passed Sandy Hook, and came to anchor in what is now the Lower Bay of New York. "What an... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1859 - 432 pagine
...in his ship the Half Moon, entered the Narrows, and pronounced the shores on either side to be " a good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see." On the llth of September in that year he began to ascend the noble stream which now bears his name,... | |
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Neversink, described by him as a "very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see. 
