These Walloons were the inhabitants of the frontier between France, and Flanders, from the river Scheldt to the river Lys, their language was the old French, and their religion the Reformed Faith of the Huguenots. Associated with this expedition, as the captain of the ship, was Adrian Joris, who had made several prior voyages to the coast of America, although he is sometimes erroneously styled "Director."" After a two months' voyage by way of the Canaries and the West Indies May and his colonists arrived in the baj' of New York. He divided the Walloons into several parties, sending some to Albanj', some to the Delaware, some to Hartford, some to Staten Island, some to Long Island -- where the name of the Wallabout bay still denotes the place of their settlement -- and retained others on the island of Manhattan. Thus began the real colonization of New Netherland, a region out of whicii was to be formed four of the Middle States and one of the New England States of the American Union. The first colonists of this region spoke no English, and knew no English law, and they were brought here by the nation which first discovered and occupied the land,' a nation likewise ignorant of English law and of the English tongue. The Roman law, with a few Batavian customs engrafted upon it, was the first legal system established in the entire region, and it not only governed the foundation of European rule and civilization in New Netherland, but maintained their continuous existence there, for half a century ; and even then only yielded to another tongue and another legal system by the force of arms.