LIST OF PLATES
Frontispiece   I coats of arms of new netherland and new

AMSTERDAM,  163O.......V      77

Frontispiece II contemporary engrossed duplicate of charles
It's  grant   of  new netherland,  etc.,  to the

DUKE   OF   YORK, march 12=22, 1664.        .          .          .      vli   235

THE   PERIOD  OF  DISCOVERY

Pl. I       Hudson's contract, jan. 8, 1609......16   28

Pl.  lA-a   PAGE FROM "SAILING BOOK"  (1609)......32      33

Pl. lA-b PAGE FROM "memorandum book" (1609).           .        .        .    32    33

Pl. iB     title-page of only   known   copy   of   van  meteren's

1610 edition of the commentaries.          .       .       .       .    48    36

Pl. iC     two  pages from  van meteren's   i6io commentaries,

containing account of Hudson's third voyage, apr. 4

to NOV. 7, 1609.........48   32

Pl. 2       THE trading charter of OCT. II, 1614.....64   41

Pl. 3-a    title-page of wassenaer's historisch verhael, vol. i,

1622.             ..........80 942

the dutch period

Pl. 3-b    the schagen leiter, nov. 5, 1626.         .       .    ■   .       .    80    67

Pl. 4       michaelius's letter of aug. 8, 1628.....    96     72

Pl. 5       michaelius's letter of aug. it, 1628.....    112    73