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BOOK II.

TREATING OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PRO¬
VINCE OF NIEUW NEDERLANDTS.
 

CHAPTER 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—and how he was magnificently re¬
warded by the munificence of their High Migh¬
tinesses.

My great grandfather, by the mother's side,
Hermanus Van Clattercop, when employed to
build the large stone church at Rotterdam, which
stands about three hundred yards to your left,
after you turn off from the Boomkeys, and which
is so conveniently constructed, that all the zealous
Christians of Rotterdam prefer sleeping through
a sermon there, to any other church in the city—
my great grandfather, I say, when employed to
build that famous church, did in the first place
send to Delft for a box of long pipes; then having