' Soo ons anders de waerlieyt bereclit is. These words are omitted in the printed Vertoogh. 'Magdalen island is opposite the town of Bed Hook, Dutchess county. The trading post was on the the present town of Springfield, Mass. site of = The trade on the Rhine and other European rivers, was subject to toll, which system the agents of the Patroon of Renselaerwyck attempted to establish also on the Hudson. But the attempt was resisted, and failed. -- Ed.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IV. 285 that they must remain apart from each other one hundred miles, according to our '^„''„'' ^"s''

reckoning. They are willing to avail themselves of this grant, but in no wise to one hundred apiirt from comply with the terms stipulated in the patent. other.

All the islands, bays, harbors, rivers, kills and places, even a great way on the The uiandB and

other side of New Holland or Cape Cod, have Dutch names, which were given '"""'^"•

them, long before they had any others, by our Dutch navigators and traders when they first began to discover and trade to those parts. The English themselves are well aware of this, but so long as they can manage it, and things get along to their liking, they will not admit the fact; for those of the Fresh river desired to enter Those of the Fresh river have offered a , 1 I I 1 mto an arrangement, and to pay a yearly acknowledgment, or to purchase the ycarij acknowiedgfee. This, indeed, is proof positive, that the right is well known to them, and they, themselves, had nothing in conscience against it, though they now from