There are, moreover, several beautiful and pleasant islands and other places, heretofore also in the occupation of the Netherlanders and still bearing the names they gave, and various other circumstances, which afford sufEcient and conclusive evidence that the river belongs to the Netherlanders and not to the Swedes. Their beginnings can of themselves convict them ; for one Minnewits, who had previously been Director at the Manhatans for the West India Company, came to this river eleven years ago -- in the year 1638 -- with the ship de KalmerdeuteP and the yacht de Vogelgryp, representing, on the cpntrary, to the Netherlanders who resided at the river on behalf of the Company and of Mr. Van der Nederhorst, that he was on a voyage to the West Indies, and that he wished first to transact some business The swede. comthere in passing, and to take in a supply of wood and water, when he should so™m river"with''2 depart. A while afterwards some of our people returned thither and still found them there; but then they J already had fprepared f garden of salad, The swedes nmite a a little b > . liiiie garden after. ; ,., ,

pot herbs and such like. Our people wondered at this; inquired what it wardsafort. meant, and if they intended to remain there? They offered divers reasons and ' The name of this fort is still preserved in that of Elsinborough, a township in Salem county, New Jersey. ' The creek has in consequence obtained the name of Christina creek. It is in the State of Delaware. 'Or the key of Kalmar. Calmar is an ancient town in Sweden, latitude 56° 40', longitude 16° 26'; its fortress was formerly considered the key of the kingdom. It is famous in Swedish history for the landing of Gustavus Vasa, in 1520, when about to deliver his country from the domination of foreigners.