AMONG MANY SURPRISING AND CURIOUS MATTERS, THE UNUTTERABLE PONDERINGS OF WALTER THE DOUBTER, AND THE CHIVALRIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF PETER THE THREE DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW AMSTERDAM: Being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been published. IN TWO VOLUMES. FIFTH AMERICAN EDITION. BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. VOL. I. De waarheid tie in duister læg, NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY C. S. VAN WINKle, No. 48 Pine-street. AL1908.393 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Charles H. Taylor Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-first day of November, in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America. C. S. VAN WINKLE, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following. to wit: “A History of 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, 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. In Two Volumes. Fifth American Edition. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. De waarheid die in duister lag; Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag." "IN CONFORMITY to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “An act for the encouragemeut of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also, to an act, entitled, “An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, en. graving, and etching historical and other prints JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern district of New-York. CONTAINING DIVERS INGENIOUS THEORIES AND PHILOSO- PHIC SPECULATIONS, CONCERNING THE CREATION AND CHap. II. – Cosmogony, or Creation of the World, with a multitude of excellent theories, by which the creation of a world is shown to be no such difficult matter as CHAP. III.-How that famous navigator, Noah, was shamefully nick-named; and how he committed an unpardonable oversight in not having four sons. With gines came to be begotten by accident-to the great relief and satisfaction of the Author. CHAP. V.-In which the Author puts a mighty question to the rout, by the assistance of the Man in the Moon -which not only delivers thousands of people from CHAP. 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 rewarded by the mu- nificence of their High Mightinesses. CHAP. II.-Containing an account of a mighty Ark which floated, under the protection of St. Nicholas, from Holland to Gibbet isiand-the descent of the strange CHAP. III.-In which is set forth the true art of making a bargain-together with the miraculous escape of a great Metropolis in a fog-and the biography of cer- CHAP. IV. How the heroes of Communipaw voyaged to Hell-Gate, and how they were received there CHAP. V.-How the heroes of Communipaw returned somewhat wiser than they went-and how the sage Oloffe dreamed a dream-and the dream that he |