that Country," &c., &c., with an account of the manners and customs of the Indians, and of the natural history of the Beaver." This and the "Vertoogh" or " Remonstrance" referred to before, published in 1650, which was a contemporaneous relation of events in New Netherland, historical, civil, and military, are the two most valuable and authentic accounts of New Netherland and its early history and condition, that exist, and are the sources to which all writers ever since, have gone for information on the early history of what is now New York. The first named work was first published in English, only in 1841, in the first volume of the second series of the Collections of the New York Historical Society, the translation having been made by the late General Jeremiah Johnson of Brooklyn. And in the second volume of the same serie.s, is an admirable translation of the " Vertoogh," from the pen of the Hon. Henry C. Murphy of the same city.

This full sketch of the Patroon of Colen Donck and his career is given, because it shows, that it was owing to what may be called his public life, that he was unable to effect the better settlement of his Westchester Patroouship. His enforced absence for so long a period, was followed by his death two years only after his return to America, too short a time to enable him to carry out any plans he may have formed in regard to it. And also because that career, one of the most striking and remarkable in New Netherland history, was the career of the Patroon of the only Patroouship in Westchester County.