The soil was fertile, the landscape being picturesquely diversified by mountains and valleys.

Vast forests, of the most valuable timber, covered immense portions.

Wild fruits and nuts in great variety were found in profusion.

The territory was watered by several truly magnificent rivers.

The region was filled with game; and furs, of the richest kind and apparently in exhaustless quantities, could be purchased of the natives, at an almost nominal price.
It may be worthy of notice, that Sir Henry Hudson never revisited the pleasant region which he had discovered, and which he had pronounced to be 'as beautiful a land as the foot of man can tread upon.' In the summer of 1610, Hudson entered the service of a London company and sailed from the Thames in the "Discovery," in search of either a Northwest or Northeast passage to the Indies.