op cit

stranded

“Adrian Van der Donk, M. D. who had resided nine years in this state, when called New Netherland, and who published in the Dutch language, in 1655, a topographical and Natural History of New Netherland, &c. says, that the Hudson, the Mohawk, and all the waters of the country, abound with every kind of fish in their respective seasons, and that in March, 1647, at the time of a great freshet, two whales of considerable bulk, went up the Hudson one hundred and sixty miles; one of them, however, returned and grounded about forty-eight miles from the sea shore, where four others, that same year, had also stranded and perished; the other grounded about one hundred and seventy-two miles up. Notwithstanding the inhabitants obtained a great quantity of train oil from it, yet by reason of the swiftness of the current at that time, the whole river for two or three weeks acquired an oily taste, and exhibited an unctuous appearance, and the noxious effluvia were offensive eight miles off.”

—De Witt Clinton, An Introductory Discourse (Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, Vol. 1, note BB, p. 150), 1815

op. cit., p. 50