Canada -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel
Zinzendorf--Teedyuscung--Allentown--Lehigh Gap--Mauch
Chunk--Asa Packer--Coal Mining--Summit Hill--The
Switchback--Nescopec Mountain--Wyoming Valley--
Wilkesbarre--Harvey's Lake--Scranton--Wyoming Massacre
--The Foul Rift--The Terminal Moraine--The Great Glacier
--Belvidere--Delaware Water Gap--The Wind Gap--Minsi
and Tammany--The Minisink--The Buried Valleys--Nicholas
Depui--George La Bar--Stroudsburg--Pocono Knob--
Bushkill--Walpack Bend--Pike County--Dingman's Choice--
Waterfalls--Milford--Tom Quick, the Indian Killer--
Tri-States Corner--Neversink River--Port Jervis--
Delaware and Hudson Canal--High Point--The Catskill Flags
--Hawk's Nest--Shohola--The Lackawaxen and its Battle--
The Sylvania Society--Horace Greeley--Blooming Grove--
Pocono High Knob--Hawley--The Wallenpaupack--The Indian
Orchard--Honesdale--Washington Irving--The Gravity
Railroad--Carbondale--Mast Hope--Narrowsburg--
Cochecton--Hancock--Delaware Headwaters--Popacton River
--Mohock River--Deposit--Oquaga Creek and Lake--Lake
Utsyanthia--Ote-se-on-teo, Source of the Delaware.
DELAWARE BAY.
The famous navigator of the Dutch East India Company, Hendrick Hudson,
was the first white man who entered Delaware Bay. He discovered it on
August 28, 1609, two weeks before he entered Sandy Hook Bay and found
the Hudson River. When Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, Governor of
Virginia, was driven by stress of weather into the bay in 1611, his
name was given the river. In 1614 another redoubtable old skipper of
the Dutch East India Company, Captain Carolis Jacobsen Mey, searching,
like all the rest of the navigators of those days, for the northwest
passage to Asia and the Indies, came along there with a small fleet of
sixty-ton frigates, and tried to give the river and its capes his
names; but only one of these has survived, Cape May. The southern
portal at the entrance, which he wished to make Cape Carolis, was
named a few years afterwards, by the Swedes, Cape Henlopen. The
Indians called the river "Lenape-wihituck," or the "river of the
Lenapes," meaning "the original people," or, as sometimes translated,
the "manly men," the name of the aboriginal confederation that dwelt
upon its banks. It had various other names, for when the Swedes came,
the Indians about the bay called it "Pantoxet." In an early deed to
William Penn it is called "Mackeriskickon," and in another document
the "Zunikoway." Some of the tribes up the river named it "Kithanue,"
meaning the "main stem," as distinguished from its tributaries, and
those on the upper waters called it the "Lemasepose," or the "Fish
River," for the Upper Delaware was then a famous salmon stream, and
its early Dutch explorers thus came to calling it the "Fish River"
also. The Delaware, from its source in the Catskills to the sea, is
about three hundred and sixty miles in length.
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