NEW YORK.
 

CHAPTER II.
 

Mow Peter Stuyvesant was much molested by the
moss troopers of the Fust, and the Giants of
J\^Ierryland—and how a dark and horrid con¬
spiracy was carried on in the British Cabinet
against the prosperity of the Manhattoes.

We are now approaching towards the crisis
of our work, and if I be not mistaken in my fore¬
bodings, Vv'e shall have a world of business to
despatch in the ensuing chapters.

It is with some communities, as it is with
certain meddlesome individuals, they have a
wonderful facility at getting into scrapes; and I
have always remarked, that those are most lia¬
ble to get in, who have the least talent at get¬
ting out again. This is, doubtless, owing to the
excessive valour of those states; for I have like¬
wise noticed that this rampant and ungoverna¬
ble quality is always most unruly where most
confined; which accounts for its vapouring so
amazingly in little states, little men, and ugly
little women especially.

Thus, when one reflects, that the province of
the Manhattoes, though of prodigious importance

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