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The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois,{{cite book | last =Hoffman | first =Charles Fenno | title =Wild scenes in the forest and prairie {Chapter II: Ko nea rau neh neh or The Flying Head) | publisher = | date =1839 | location =Original from Oxford University | pages =Page 31 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=JHoEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA48&dq=%22The+Flying+Head%22&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1#PRA1-PA31,M1 | doi = | id = }} or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, Θkahnéhtati in Tuscarora), is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York State and forms the border between New York City and New Jersey at its mouth before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It is named for Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609. The Hudson River was originally named the Mauritius River, which is claimed to be the name given by Hudson in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau. Alternatively, it is said to be the name given by Sixteenth century European adventurers, explorers, and fishermen who knew the river as River Mauritius, 'The River of Mountains'.
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The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois,{{cite book | last =Hoffman | first =Charles Fenno | title =Wild scenes in the forest and prairie {Chapter II: Ko nea rau neh neh or The Flying Head) | publisher = | date =1839 | location =Original from Oxford University | pages =Page 31 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=JHoEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA48&dq=%22The+Flying+Head%22&as_brr=1&ie=ISO-8859-1#PRA1-PA31,M1 | doi = | id = }} or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, Θkahnéhtati in Tuscarora), is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York State and forms the border between New York City and New Jersey at its mouth before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It is named for Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609. The Hudson River was originally named the Mauritius River, which is claimed to be the name given by Hudson in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau. Alternatively, it is said to be the name given by Sixteenth century European adventurers, explorers, and fishermen who knew the river as River Mauritius, 'The River of Mountains'.
Early European settlement of the area clustered around the river. The area inspired the Hudson River school of painting, a sort of early American pastoral idyll.
Geography
The official source of the Hudson is Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains. However, the waterway from the lake is known as Feldspar Brook and the Opalescent River, feeding into the Hudson at Tahawus. The actual Hudson River begins several miles north of Tahawus at Henderson Lake. The Hudson is joined at Troy (north of Albany) by the Mohawk River, its major tributary, just south of which the Federal Dam separates the Upper Hudson River Valley from the Lower Hudson River Valley or simply the Hudson River Valley. South of Troy, the Hudson is tidal and widens and flows south into the Atlantic Ocean between Manhattan Island and the New Jersey Palisades, forming New York Harbor, at New York Bay, an arm of the Ocean. The Hudson was originally named the "North River" by the Dutch, who named the Delaware River the "South River." This name persists to this day in radio communication among commercial shipping traffic, especially below Tappan Zee, as well as place names such as the North River Sewage Treatment Plant. It was the English who originated the Hudson name, even though Hudson had found the river while exploring for the Dutch.
