1881 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. CONTAINING DIVERS INGENIOUS THEORIES AND PHILO- SOPHIC SPECULATIONS CONCERNING THE CREATION AND CHAP. II.-Cosmogony, or Creation of the World; with a multitude of excellent Theories, by which the Creation CHAP. III.-How far that famous Navigator, Noah, was shamefully nick-named; and how he committed an unpardonable oversight in not having Four Sons; with CHAP. IV. Showing the great difficulty Philosophers have had in peopling America-and how the Aborigines came M316894 |