The Map of which the description is here given, is doubtless a republication of the older Dutch Maps of New Netherland (now New- York) published by Vischer, Jansson and others, nearly two hundred years ago, the title and other parts of which have been altered to suit the English market. The St. Lawrence was laid down by the Dutch as far back as 1614 as the " Great river of New Netherland," and in 1656 or 1659 they called it the " Great river of Canada." We find Bassett now changing it into the Great river of New England! The names of the Indian tribes and of the locality near Philadelphia are copied from the Dutch.

Sassett's map was published we presume on the restitution of New Netherland to the Duke of York in 1674. It is perhaps the earliest English copy publislied of tlie Dutch maps, and in this point of view it cannot fail to possess interest.

ANOTHER LAND MARK REMOVED. The famous " Old Dutch (Lutheran) Church," in days of yore located on " Horse and Cart-street," so called from an inn near by, bearing the representation of a horse and cart for a sign, but in latter days on William-street, has at last been prostrated before the march of improvement. Its dingy and time-worn walls have been for 83 years, or since the year 1767, the silent

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witness of the growth of New- Amsterdam, and have long remained among the few relics of her past insignificance.