of a bullock would cover or

encompass, which hide was brought forward and spread on the

That they readily granted this request ; a knife, and beginning at one place took the whites whereupon

ground before them.

on this hide, cut it up into a rope not thicker than the ringer of that by the time this hide was cut up, there was a great heap ; that this rope was drawn out to a great disa little child, so

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tance, and then brought round again, so that the ends might meet ; that they carefully avoided its breaking, and that upon the whole it encompassed a large piece of land ; that they were surprised at the superior wit of the whites, but did not wish to contend with them about a little land, as they had enough ; that

they and the whites lived for a long time contentedly together, although the whites asked from time to time, more land of them

and proceeding higher up the Mahicanituk, 1 they believed they would soon want all the country."

The Iroquois, it is said, called the river

the Cohatatea, while the Mahicans and the " Lenapes called it the Mahicanituk or the

The Dutch continually flowing waters." gave it the name of Mauritius river, as early

as

1611, in honor of their stadtholder, Prince Maurice, of Nassau.

Hud

a name which the French adopted in Rio de Montagne. The English first gave it the name of Hudson's river by which, and North river, the latter to distinguish it from the Connecticut or East river, and from the Delaware or South river, it