Those who had always corresponded with those wicked children of Belial, van Beeck Perquin; they got a hearing, - however, and set their affair in such a light before their H. M. that it was resolved to prevent such unrighteous proceedings, dispatched letters of inhibition, ordered Stuyvesant either to appear in person or by proxy, in order to hear his sentence maintained, confirmed or annulled ; or else to await it there, and to that end their H. M. supplied the complainants with all necessary orders, safeguards, acts and instruments.

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DESCRIPTION

NEW NETHERLAND.

1671.

'Translated from De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuidland; door Annotpus Montanus. Amsterdam, 1671.

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NEW NETHERLAND.

New Nernertanp bounded on the south west by Vérginia, ape stretches on the north east to Mew England, on the Netherlanl. north it is washed by the river Canada, and on the coast by the Ocean: north westerly, inland, it remains wholly unknown. The first who discovered this country was Henry Hudson. Engaged by the East India Company to find out a passage to China north of America, he set sail with the Yacht Half Moon, in the year sixteen hundred and nine. In front of Newfoundland he took a course directly southwest ; entered a large river ; there [met] two men clothed in Elk skins, and subsequently arrived safe at Amsterdam. New Netherland being thus discovered, divers traders set about establishing a stable trade here. Wherefore they sought for and obtained a charter in the year sixteen hundred and fourteen, from the States General at the Hague, to trade to New WVetherland to the exclusion of all others. Earnestly, now, was the trade prosecuted. Adriaen Blok and Godyn soon discovered here divers coasts, islands, harbours and rivers.