. Le monde littéraire de Shepp : contenant la vie de nos auteurs américains et anglais préférés. Avec des choix de leurs écrits . jIHE auteur fera maintenant référence à la découverte de la rivière Hudson et de la ville de NewYork via fort Lee et le 125e StreetFerry. Par la suite, New York a été vendue pour vingt-quatre dol-lars,-—toute l'île. Quand je pense à cela, je vais dans ma galerie familiale, que j'utilise aussi comme un swarroom, et TUE ces ancêtres de moi ce que je thinkof eux. Où étaient-ils quand New York a été vendu pour vingt-quatre dollars? Étaient-ils havingleurs portraits peints par Land
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. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . jIHE author will now refer to the discovery ofthe Hudson River and the town of NewYork via Fort Lee and the 125th StreetFerry. New York was afterwards sold for twenty-four dol-lars, -—the whole island. When I think of this I gointo my family gallery, which I also use as a swearroom, and teU those ancestors of mine what I thinkof them. Where were they when New York was sold for twenty-four dollars? Were they havingtheir portraits painted by Landsoer, or their dispnsi-tion taken by Jeffreys, or having their Little LordFauntleroy clothes made ? Do not encourage them to believe that they will escape me in future years. Some uf them died un- regenerate, and are now, I am told, in a country where they may possibly be damned; and I will at- . tend to the others personally.. Twenty-four dollars for New York! Why, myCroton-water tax on one house and lot with fiftyfeet four and one-fourth inches front is fifty-nine dol-lars and no questions asked. Why, you cant get avoter for that now. Henry—or Hendrik—Hudson was an Englishnavigator, of whose birth and early history nothingis known definitely, hence his name is never men-tioned in many of the best homes of New York. In 1607 he made a voyage in search of theNorth West Passage. In one of his voyages he dis-covered Cape Cod, and later on the Hudson River. This was one hundred and seventeen years afterColumbus discovered America; which shows that thediscovering business was not pushed as it should havebeen by those who had it in charge. Hudson went up the river as far as Albany, but, finding no one there whom he knew, he hastenedback as far as 209th Street West, and anchored. He discovered Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, and made other journeys by water, though aquattingwas then in its infancy. Afterwards his
