The second division, or Second Colony, assigned to the Plymouth Company, embraced the country from forty-one degrees to forty-five degrees, with the privilege of acquiring rights southward to thirty-eight degrees, likewise conditioned upon priority of colonization. Throughout the long controversy between England and Holland touching their respective territorial rights in America, it was, indeed, the uniform contention of the English that the Dutch were interlopers in the interior, and that the exclusive British title to the coast was beyond question. Attached to the charter given by the States-General to the New Netherland Company was Block's tk figurative map," already alluded to. The grant accorded to the company a trade monopoly, which, however, was only " for four voyages, within the term of three years, commencing the 1st of January, 1615, next ensuing, or sooner." During to any other perthis three years' period it was not to be " permitted son from the United Netherlands to sail to, navigate, or frequent the of confiscasaid newly discovered lands, havens, or places," "on pain shall be attion of the vessel and cargo wherewith infraction hereof of the benefit the for ducats Netherland 50,000 of tempted, and a fine said discovers or finders." No obligation to settle the land was prescribed for the company, and, indeed, this charter was purely a concession to private gain-seeking individuals, involving no projected aims of state policy or colonial for but a brief peundertaking whatever, although wisely bestowed riod. Under the strictly commercial regime of the New Netherland Company other voyagWwere made, all highly successful in material results, the fur trade with the Indians still being the objective. That the scope of operations of these early Dutch traders comprehended the entire navigable portion of the Hudson River is sufficiently evidenced by the fact that two forts were erected near the site of Albany, one called Fort Nassau, on an island in the river, and the other Fort inOrange, on the mainland.