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NEW-YORK,

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, tbe Disastrous Projects
of WILLIAM THE Testy, and the chivalric achievements of
Prrer THB HEADSTRONG, the three Dutch Governors of New-
AMSTERDAM ; being the only Authentic History of the Times
that ever hath been published.

The Second Edition with Alterations.

BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

. De waarheid die in duister lag,

Die koint met klaarheid aan den dag.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP AND BRADFORD, AND
PRÁDFORD AND INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA,

. 1812.