BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

PHILADELPHIA

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

A

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 gOV-
ERNORS OF NEW AMSTERDAM ;

BEING THE

ONLY AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE TIMES THAT EVER HATII BEEN OR EVER WILL BE PUBLISHED.

BY

DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

De waarheid die in duister lag,
Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag.

THE AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION.

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1871.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

GEORGE P. PUTNAM,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of

New York.

CONTAINING DIVERS INGENIOUS THEORIES AND PHILOSOPHIC SPECULA

TIONS, CONCERNING THE CREATION AND POPULATION OF THE WOrld,

AS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK.

CHAP. I.- Description of the World.

CHAP. II. Cosmogony, or Creation of the World; with

a multitude of excellent theories, by which the crea-

tion of a world is shown to be no such difficult mat-

ter as common folk would imagine...

CHAP. III. How that famous navigator, Noah, was

shamefully nicknamed; and how he committed an

unpardonable oversight in not having four sons.

With the great trouble of philosophers caused there-

by, and the discovery of America.

CHAP. IV. Showing the great difficulty philosophers

have had in peopling America and how the Abo-

rigines 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

great embarrassment, but likewise concludes this in-

troductory book..

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BOOK II.

TREATING OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NIEUW-

NEDERLANDTS.

CHAP. I. In which are contained divers reasons why a

Also of Master

man should not write in a hurry

Hendrick Hudson, his discovery of a strange country

-and how he was magnificently rewarded by the

munificence of their High Mightinesses...

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