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position. The Hudson is mapped only a very short distance 

 above this junction, which is plotted considerably north of its 

 true position. Some think that a boat from the Half Moon went 

 up to this point, but the weight of evidence tends to show that 

 it turned back near Albany. The branching of the Mohawk and 

 the abrupt termination of the Hudson as shown on this map can 

 best be explained on the theory that Hudson's boat reached that 

 place. The lake to the north and a river flowing southeasterly 

 therefrom were shown on earlier maps, from which it is possible 

 this northern part of the map may have been copied ; or it may 

 have been derived, as stated on the map as to certain parts 

 thereof, from " the relations of the Indians." 



The East River and Long Island Sound had evidently not been 

 discovered when this map was made, as the land is shown un- 

 broken on the east side of the Hudson, from the Narrows north- 

 ward. If any one had attempted to follow up Hudson in the 

 short space of time which elapsed between his return to England 

 and the making of this map, the East River and Long Island 

 Sound could hardly have failed of discovery. In the journal 

 kept by Juet, one of Hudson's crew on this voyage, under date of 

 September 3, 1609, he says: "At three of the clock in the after- 

 noon we came to three great rivers." Historians have been in 

 doubt as to what rivers these were, but if this map represents 

 Hudson's impressions of the vicinity, the three rivers are evi- 

 dently the Narrows, Arthur Kill, and Raritan River. 



Hudson 'returned to England November 7, 1609. The Eng- 

 lish government forbade him to leave the country, and it was 

 thought in June, 1610, that the English would send ships to 

 Virginia to explore the river found by Hudson, but no such 

 voyage is recorded. It would be expected then that the sur- 

 veyor sent by the King to Virginia would have made use of all 

 of the data collected by Hudson. 



Strachey, a Virginia historian who wrote at the time, referring 

 to Argall's voyage made from June to August, 1610, says he 

 "made good from. 44 degrees .what Captayne Bartho. Gosnoll 



