OF THE SOUTH BAY AND SOUTH RIVER, 290

OP THE CONVENIENCE AND EXCELLENCE OF THE WATERS, 293

OF THE REASONS AND CAUSE OF THE GREAT DECAY OF NEW NETHERLAND, 295

THE ADMINISTRATION OF DIRECTOR KIEFT, IN PARTICULAR, 304

THE ADMINISTRATION OF DIRECTOR STUYVESANT, IN PARTICULAR, 307

IN WHAT MANNER NEW NETHERLAND SHOULD BE RELIEVED, 317

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(3) REPRESENTATION OF NEW NETHERLAND, AS REGARDS ITS LOCATION, PRODUCTIVENESS AND POOR CONDITION.

navigable waters and trade, those who bear the name of Netherlanders will very foTforeign naviga"-

easily be able to hold their rank among the foremost, as is sufficiently known to trade.""'"' all those who have in any wise saluted the threshold of history. It will, in like

manner, be also, confirmed by our following Relation, for in the year of Christ 1G09, discovered at the expense of the General East India Company -- though directing '!> ""'-'' Sbip naive their aim and design elsewhere -- by the ship de Halve Mane, whereof Henry Hudson was master and factor. It was aftewards named New Netherland by oui" Netherland

people, and that very justly, for it was first discovered, and taken possession of, by resembles nd in mauy Netherlanders and at their expense, so that even at the present day, the natives of the country, (who are so old as to remember the event)' testify, •' J that on seeing o ^hcn the indh ' ^ fIrBt eaw tlie sh the Dutch ships on their first coming here, they knew not what to make of them, f{'w!!^°*nie"'irn