arkable career.

[FOR THE NEXT SECTION OF THIS GENERAL SURVEY SEE VOLUME XII]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See _Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy_, page 14.

[2] See _Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood_, page 50.

[3] See _Educational Reform of Comenius_, page 192.

[4] See _Birth of Modern Scientific Methods: Bacon and Descartes_,
page 116.

[5] See _Recantation of Galileo_, page 184.

[6] See _Masaniello's Revolt at Naples_, page 253.

[7] See _The "Defenestration" at Prague: The Thirty Years' War_,
page 62.

[8] See _Triumph and Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Luetzen_,
page 174.

[9] See _Peace of Westphalia_, page 285.

[10] See _Siege of La Rochelle: Richelieu Rules France_, page 129.

[11] See _Moliere Creates Modern Comedy_, page 347.

[12] See _War of the Fronde_, page 285.

[13] See _Abolition of the Star-Chamber: Popular Revolt against
Charles I_, page 215.

[14] See _Presbyterianism Established: Meeting of the Westminster
Assembly_, page 238.

[15] See _Civil War in England: Execution of Charles I_,
page 311.

[16] See _Cromwell's Campaign in Ireland_, page 335.

[17] See _Cromwell's Rule in England: The Restoration_, page 357.

[18] See _Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River_, page 1.

[19] See _Dutch Settlement of New York_, page 44.

[20] See _Beginning of British Power in India_, page 30.

[21] See _Founding of Montreal_, page 232.

[22] See _English Pilgrims Settle at Plymouth_, page 93.

[23] See _First American Legislature_, page 76.

[24] See _Introduction of Negroes into Virginia: Spread of Slavery and
the Cultivation of Tobacco_, page 81.

[25] See _Great Puritan Exodus to New England: Founding of Boston_,
page 153.

[26] See _First Written Free Constitution in the World_, page 205.

[27] See _Earliest Union among American Colonies_, page 205.

[28] See _Religious Toleration Proclaimed in Maryland_, page 303.

HENRY HUDSON EXPLORES THE HUDSON RIVER

A.D. 1609

HENRY R. CLEVELAND

Although Henry Hudson was not the first discoverer of the
waters to which his name was given, he was a bold sailor whose
achievements justly gave him rank with the foremost navigators
and explorers of his time. He was well versed in scientific
navigation. His first recorded voyage was made in the service
of the Muscovy or Russia Company of England in 1607. His object
was to find a passage across the north pole to the Spice
Islan