The barley can be tied above the head. Furthermore, all sorts of flowers havea pleasant odor and appearance. The hills consist of fullers earth, or clay, fit for making dishes, pots and tobacco pipes. There is, besides, abundance of rock crystal and Muscovy glass. Other hills furnish marble, _ serpentine, blue and hearth stone. And although the Dutch have not taken much trouble to dig for minerals, either on account of not being numerous enough, or in order not to make

other folks' mouths water, it isnevertheless incon- . Gold and Silver tyovertible that the subterranean cavities in the hills ae conceal gold and silver. When Wilhem Kieft, the governor, employed, in the year sixteen hundred and forty five, the _

Indian interpreter Agheroense, with a view, through ee him to terminate the difficulties which had arisen

between the West India Company and the cruel tribe, the Malkwaes, he observed that the said interpreter streaked his face with a glittering yellow paint. Kieft suspected some valuable mineral to be concealed in this operation, proposed to satisfy Agheroense ; subjected it to the crucible ; obtained two pieces of gold worth three guilders. He kept the matter secret ; obtained fortunately from the mountain pointed out by Agheroense,a bucket full of the material, for it furnished gold. Kieft now imagined he had made a great discovery & despatched Arend*Corsen from New Haven to Holland with the stuff. But

Water melons

Corn.

Peas

'Nature of the hills.

* Their disease.

118 DESCRIPTION OF NEW NETHERLAND.