Company, or of the stockholders support, in foreign parts, great pomp and expensive style; retrieve, moreover, their wretched affairs in a remarkable manner; consume by thousands, and are not content with a second, but again take everything at the expense of the Company, a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, &c. 'Tis a plague, a punishment, the total ruin and confusion of the Hon'''' laudable West India Company, that such a man ( meaning the Director), who dares to alienate, convey, sell and give away, not only their movables, but even their domain, real estate, &c., to make unto himself friends of this unrighteous Mammon, should still be upheld and protected with soul and body by some, as I see with my eyes. What stupid boors feel for and grope after, the children on the street understand : non sunt fahulcz Tieque auguria.

I, the undersigned. Notary at the Hague, certify that having carefully examined

and compared all the aforesaid copies and extracts, with the originals, piece by piece, they are found strictly to agree with the same, so far as the aforesaid extracts are concerned, in words and dates, this xxi April, 1652. Hague. (Signed) M. Beeckman, Noty Publ.

Memoir on the Boundaries of New JSfetherland. By Adriaen van der Donck. [ From B Notarial copy in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague Loketkas of the States General ; ; Division, West Indische ConpagnU, No. 88. ]

Memoir respecting the ancient Boundaries of New Netherland, as first occupied in the year 1609 ; the usurpations, from time to time, of the English, and, finally, what has been ceded by Director Stuyvesant to the English, subject to their High Mightinesses' ratification, as indicated in letters and memoirs from New Netherland, drawn up pursuant to their High Mightinesses' last resolution, dated 16"" February, 1652.