Nelsons Illustrated Guide to the Hudson And Its Tributaries
Nelsons Illustrated Guide to the Hudson And Its Tributaries
Hough, Franklin Benjamin, 1822-1885
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\QQ Kieft embarked, on his return to Holland, provided with further specimens of the Catskill Mountain ore, from which he doubtless indulged golden speculations. A similar fate attended him with that which had be- fallen his agent. The ship in which he had embark. . I was cast away, and he and his treasure were swallowed in the waves. Thus closes the golden legend of the Catskills ; but another one of similar import succeeds. " In 1 G49, about two years after the shipwreck of Wil- li, lmus Kief...t, there were again rumours of precious metals in these mountains. Mynheer Brant Arent van Slechtenhorst, agent of the patroon of Rensselaerswyek, had purchased in behalf of the patroon atractofthe Cats- kill land, and leased it out in farms. A Dutch lass in the household of one of the formers found one day a glitter- ingsubstance, which, on beingexamined, waspronounced silver ore. Brant van SlechtenhorBt forthwith Bent his d from Rensselaerswyck to explore the mountains in quasi of the supposed mines, Tin- young man put up in the farmer's house, which had recently been erected on the margin ..
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