His lifeless body was at once decapitated; the head fixed on the palisades of the village and the trunk cast into the Mohawk river. 2

Thus fell, in the 40th year of his age, the first Catholic Missionary in New York. It is supposed that he was slain at Caughnawaga, in Montgomery co., which in the Annals of Religion was afterwards known as the '' Mission of the Martyrs." A copy of the original French MS. and the following Translation, were presented to the Regents of the University, by the Rev. Father Manrrin, Superior of the Jesuitsin Canada. Ep.

; NEW NETHERLAND IN: 1644.

By Rey. Isaac Jogues, S. J.

* New Hoxtanp which the Dutch call in Latin Voown Belgium: in their own language Nieuw Nederland, that is to say, New Low Countries, is situated between Virginia and New England. The mouth of the river called by some Nassau river or the great North river (to distinguish it from another which they call the South river) and which in some maps that I have recently seen is also called, I think, River Maurice, is at 40° 30'. Its channel is deep, fit for the largest ships that ascend to Manhattes Island, which is seven leagues in circuit, and on which there is a fort to serve as the commencement of a town to be built there and to be called New Amsterdam.

This fort which is at the point of the island about five or six leagues from the mouth, is called Fort Amsterdam ; it has four regular bastions mounted with several pieces of artillery. All these bastions and the curtains were in 1643 but ramparts of earth, most of which had crumbled away, so that the fort could be entered on all sides. There were no ditches.