A HISTORY OF NEW YOR FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY. CONTAINING, AMONG MANY SURPRISING AND CURIOUS MATTERS, THE UNUTTERABLE ponderINGS OF WALTER THE DOUBTER, L AND THE CHIVALRIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF PETER THE HEADSTRONG. THE THREE DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW AMSTERDAM : Being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been published. IN TWO VOLUMES. FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION. BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER, VOL. I. De waarheid die in duister lag, NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY C. S. VAN WINKLE, No. 2 Thames-street. THE NEW YORK 162813 ASTOR, LENOX AND 1899. Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-first day of Novem ber, in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United State of America, C. S. Van Winkle, of the said District, hath deposited this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Pr prietor, in the words following, to wit: "A History of New-York, from the beginning of the world to th end of the Dutch Dynasty. Containing among many surprising an curious matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubte the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalri Achievements of Peter the Headstrong. The three Dutch Governor of New-Amsterdam. Being the only Authentic History of the Time that ever hath been published. In Two Volumes. Fourth America Edition. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. De waarheid die in duister lag, Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag." IN CONFORMITY to the Act of the Congress of the United States, en titled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning by securing the copies of Maps Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors o such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to a Act entitled "An Act supplementary to an act entitled An Ac for the encouragement of Learning by securing the copies of Maps Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits there of to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. CONTAINING DIVERS INGENIOUS THEORIES AND PHILOSO- PHIC SPECULATIONS, CONCERNING THE CREATION AND CHAP. II.—Cosmogony, or Creation of the World, with a multitude of excellent theories, by which the creation of a world is shown to be no such difficult matter as CHAP. III.-How that famous navigator, Noah, was shamefully nick-named; and how he committed an unpardonable oversight in not having four sons. With the great trouble of philosophers caused thereby, and 52 CONTENTS. gines came to be begotten by accident-to the great relief and satisfaction of the Author CHAP. V.-In which the Author puts a mighty question to the rout, by the assistance of the Man in the Moon -which not only delivers thousands of people from TREATING OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCE CHAP. I.-In which are contained divers reasons why a man should not write in a hurry. Also of Master Hendrick Hudson, his discovery of a strange country CHAP. II.-Containing an account of a mighty Ark which floated, under the protection of St. Nicholas, from Holland to Gibbet Island-the descent of the strange CHAP. III. In which is set forth the true art of making a bargain-together with the miraculous escape of a great Metropolis in a fog-and the biography of cer- CHAP. IV.-How the heroes of Communipaw voyaged to Hell-Gate, and how they were received there 122 CHAP. V.-How the heroes of Communipaw returned somewhat wiser than they went-and how the sage |