IHI
 

A HISTORY

OF
FROM   THE

BEGINNING OF THE WORLD

TO   THE

END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY.

CONTAINING
 

AMONG MANY SURPRISING AND CURIOUS MATTERS, THE UNUTTER¬
ABLE PONDERINGS OF WALTER THE DOUBTER, THE DISASTROUS
PROJECTS OF WILLIAM THE TESTY, 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.

THE THIRD EDITION.
BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

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©ic fomt met flaav^cib aan ben bag.

IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I.

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