It is not to be |;^''iong*''iiT8uE expected that 'twill fare any better, but much worse whilst it is under their J^^""'"* company, control, such is their greediness and misgovernment ; but the right time to treat of this matter is not yet arrived.

OF THE CONVENIENCE AND EXCELLENCE OF THE WATERS.

Having treated of the situation of the land and its boundaries, and having spoken, consequently, of the location of the rivers, it will not be foreign to our purpose to add a word respecting the goodness and convenience of the waters, which are salt, brackish and fresh, according O to their locality. ' J There are, in New Four chief rivers ' i

New Netherlaud. Netherland, four prmcipal rivers; the most southerly is commonly called the South river, the bay, before entering the river, Godyn's bay ; the river is so named not because its course is south, but because it is the most southerly river of New Netherland. It is immediately south of another, which is also the principal and best as regards trade and population, and is called Rio Montanjes, on account of some mountains, or Mauritius' river, commonly the North river, because its course is mainly, and for a great distance, towards the north. The third is the East river, so named because it stretches East from the Manathans. This is The East river, > esteemed by many not a river but a bay, because 'tis very wide in some places, runs eastS^wJ and opens at both ends into the sea. We, however, consider it a river, and it is