Fourteen streams flow into this river, the smallest of them navigable for two or three leagues, and every where, on both sides, are pretty good flats in great abundance.Two leagues from Cape Cornelius, on the West side of the entrance, lies a certain kill which might well be called an ordinary river, or stream, for it is wide, navigable far up, and has a fine roadstead for ships of all dimensions. There is no other in the entire bay equal to it for goodness and convenience.The direct channel, in sailing up, runs close by it. This place is called the Whore Kill. What this name is derived from, we know not. This much is certain, that this place was taken up and colonized by The States' nrrns Nethcrlauders years before any English or Swedes came there. •' J b The States' erected on Iho South

ar'riyaiof th" Eng! arms Were also set up at this place in copper; but as they were thrown down by liBh or Swede.. ^^^^ insolcnt Indians, the Commissary there resented it very strongly and demanded the head of the offender. The Indians, knowing nothing better, brought a head, saying it was that of the transgressor, and herewith it was thought the affair was arranged but sometime afterwards, whilst our people ;

were wholly unconscious of the design, and engaged in their field labor, the

Indians came, in the guise of friendship and, distributing themselves all around, according to the number of the Dutch, overpowered and murdered them. In