EVIDENCE OF THE FRENCH DISCOVERIES IN" NEW YORK 

 PREVIOUS TO THE COLONIZATION BY THE DUTCH. 



[Read before the Albany Institute, June 15, 1886.] 



The old story of Columbus and the egg has been re-enacted in our 

 day and generation. It was easy to make the egg stand on its end 

 after he had shown the company how to do it. So, although the evi- 

 dence of prior visits and even occupation, by the French for trading 



the Colonial History of New York, still the ..1,1 tradition, started by 

 the Dutch and repeated by the English, has been reiterated in our 

 day, that Henry Hudson was the first European to navigate the river 



there was no certain knowledge of its existence among the civilized 



i celle de la navigation t'r; 

 eppe, a young and enter 

 ts, had been instructed b; 

 ner and chart-maker of t 

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year 1488. This captain was th 

 the instructions of Desealiers " 

 middle of the ocean, so that 

 did his predecessors 



the port of Dieppe in the begin 



ing the British channel he 

 mched"out"iiito the ocean, and found himself at the end of 

 months near an unknown land, where he discovered the mouth 



