He was told he could not go; his family was obliged to sail without him, and he returned to tlie Hague He now employed his leisure in writing another work on his adopted country, for which he obtained, as stated in the text, a fi teen years' copyright and returned in the fall of 1653 to America, with leave to practice his profession "as far as giving advice," as the Directors see what advantage his pleadings before the court would have, especially as there "could not were, no some lawyers already in New Netherland who could be engaged on the other side." He evidentiy doubt, contemplated an adlition to the last mentioned work, embracing a history of the Province, for he had applied for permission to examine the Colonial records. Unfortunately, the application was fruitless, and his second book was published in 1655, without the proposed addition. It is entitled:

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Aert, gelegentheyt en vrucht | baerheyt van het selve Lant; mitsgaders de proffijtelijcke en- de gewenste toevallen, die |

aldaer tot onderhoiit der Mensehen, ( soo | uyt hiier s.dven als van buyten ing.-liracht ) gevonden worden. ALS 5IEDE fit | |

martitrt tn onsbtmtjnt isgenstijapptit | ian tit WLiXtinx aitt Natuttlttn baniicn HLaitlJt. Enit Een bysonder verhael vanden | 1

wonderlijoken Aert | ende het Weesen der BEVERS. | DAER NOCH BY GEYOEGHT IS | ioJrt biSCOUXS oijM it Jjtlt^tntlnjt

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