The Sloops of the Hudson: An Historical Sketch of the Packet and Market Sloops of the Last Century, With a Record of Their Names; Together With Personal Reminiscences of Certain of the Notable North R

Excerpt from The Sloops of the Hudson: An Historical Sketch of the Packet and Market Sloops of the Last Century, With a Record of Their Names; Together With Personal Reminiscences of Certain of the Notable North River Sailing Masters

No history of the sloops of the Hudson, so far as I can learn, has ever been written, nor has any more than a bare reference here and there been made to them in the literature of the past Sixty years.

Cooper and Irving make mention of these useful vessels, and in a way that makes it quite evident that their importance in the daily life of the people struck the imagina tion of those writers in a lively manner. But later writers have apparently ignored the sloop. Perhaps, it was because she was like those worthy persons who make no noise as they go through the world and Whose quiet and useful lives are taken as a matter of course.

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