Excerpt from Sentinels Along Our Coast
So wrote Henry Hudson in the log of the Half M oon, on first entering New York Harbor in 1609. And the discoverer of these waters complained that he was obliged to work his way in very cautiously, by send ing boats ahead of his diminutive craft to take soundings. The Half M oon had the draft of a modern tugboat.
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