 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1811 - 452 pages
...Lands they told vs were as pleasant with Grasse and Flowers, and goodly Trees, as euer they had scene, and very sweet smells came from them. So they - went...and saw an open Sea, and returned ; and as they came backe, they were set vpon by two Canoes, the one hauing twelue, the other fourteene men. The night... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...the Kills between Bergen and Staten Island, and his men on their return reported, that the " Lands were as pleasant with grass and flowers, and goodly...they had seen, and very sweet smells came from them." This is not now the case. The grazing of cattle, the rooting of swine, the plough, and other implements... | |
 | 1834 - 404 pages
...the Kills, between Bergen and Staten Island, and his men, on their return, reported that the 'lands were as pleasant with grass and flowers, and goodly...they had seen, and very sweet smells came from them.' This is not now the case. The grazing of cattle, the rooting of swine, the plough atid other implements... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 398 pages
...the Kills between Bergen and Statcn Island, and his men, on their return, reported that the " lands were as pleasant with grass and flowers, and goodly...ever they had seen, and very sweet smells came from thorn." This is not now the ease. The grazing of cattle, the rooting of swine, the plough, and other... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - 1846 - 376 pages
...country,8 having returned with intelligence that there was abundance of water, that the lands were " pleasant with grass and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had seen," and that " very sweet smells came from them," preparations were made, and on the 10th of September, Hudson... | |
 | William Adee Whitehead - New Jersey - 1846 - 368 pages
...country,6 having returned with intelligence that there was abundance of water, that the lands were " pleasant with grass and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had seen," and that " very sweet smells came from them," preparations were made, and on the 10th of September, Hudson... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - Local history - 1846 - 372 pages
...country,8 having returned with intelligence that there was abundance of water, that the lands were " pleasant with grass and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had seen," and that " very sweet smells came from them," preparations were made, and on the 10th of September, Hudson... | |
 | Baptists - 1848 - 400 pages
...Neck and Staten Island), between two Islands. The lands, they told us, were as pleasant, with grasse and flowers, and goodly trees, as ever they had seen, and very sweet smells come from them. The night grew so darke, that the men could not find the shippe that night, but lay... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 458 pages
...Neck and Staten Island), between two Islands. The lands, they told us, were as pleasant, with grasse and flowers, and goodly trees, as ever they had seen, and very sweet smells came from them. The night grew so darke, that the men could not find the shippe that night, but lay still on their... | |
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... a narrow river to the westward, betweene two ilands. The lands, they told us, were as pleasant with grasse and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had seene, and very sweet smells came from them. 
