The instructions of the mouth the at islands, of group or to purchase the archipelago, mamthe on y territor ng adjoini the all with r togethe Norwalk River, and High the of arms and d standar the thereon erect to land, and " protecour under savages the take to ; General Mighty Lords Statesour tion, and to prevent effectually any other nation encroaching on stole policy, beingof 1640 was in the line of limits." The purchasemated as a countercheck to the English, who, conceived and consum s on the banks of having by this time appeared in considerable numberions to the whole the Connecticut River, were making active pretens were thus and , interior the in and Sound the along y western territor seriouslv menacing the integrity of the Dutch colonial empire. asWre may here appropriately pause to glance at some pertinentwith pects of British colonial progress in New England -- aspects Dutch which, we shall be bound to grant, those of contemporaneous orably. over-fav compare not do development in New Netherland in The Pilgrims of the "Mayflower" landed on Plymouth Rock latethe the month of December, 1620, a little more than two years before Bay on the ship original company of Walloons came to New ntYork in New England and "New Netherlands The first British settleme ted the first Dutch settlement in New Netherland were thus inaugura to almost simultaneously, the former having a slight advantage as more a of on possessi the in one able time, and the latter a consider o-enial climate, a less stubborn soil, and a superior natural location as also in the enjoyment of a more powerful, interested, and liberal nt at Plymouth, the Enghome patronage. From the parent settleme lish not only rapidly advanced into the whole surrounding country, but in the course of a few years sent colonizing parties to quite remote