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| | The Voyage of the Mayflower: Ch 4 |
 | | Hendrik Hudson, then in the employ of the East India Company, skirted the adjacent coast in 1608, landing on the extreme end of Cape Cod, but not entering the bay. |
 | | Nearly two years before the landing of the Pilgrims Captain Thomas Dermer, a navigator already familiar with the locality, and who had previously explored the near-by waters, suggested in his correspondence to his employer, Sir Fernando Gorges, that a plantation be settled here. |
 | | This may possibly account for the allusion to the duplicity of the commander of the Mayflower as having steered his craft away from a course that would fetch them off Manhattan Island, or the mouth of the Hudson River, already viewed by the Dutch as a likely place for settlement. |
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