Excerpt from Appleton's Hand-Book of American Travel: The Northern Tour Its length from east to west is 335 miles, and its breadth about 300 miles, embracing an area of about acres. The earliest settlements within the State were made by the Dutch, at Fort Orange (albany), and at New Amster dam, now New York City. This was in 1614, five years after the voyage of Hendrick Hudson up the waters of that river which now bears his name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.