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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 4

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LSUAli HOT10ES. some Walsohe, or Walloons, who seated them tiffllp atlijtl( they live. We heard a minister preach who had come from Fort Orange in ttoup river country, bom Amsterdam He had come down to New York to assist in the ordination of'a candidate tor the ministry. This Sohaate, who had a defeot in bis left eye, preached with such strange language that I think I never heard anything so miserable in all my lite. His text was Como unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden and I will Rive you rest." but he was so rough that ho made the roughest and most godless of our sailors stare." Both minister and congregation are here very harshly judged.

Dominie Sohaatts was the minister at Albany and was at this time over seventy years ot age. His congregation was undoubtedly oom, posed of all classes among whioh there were many coarse and unmannerly persons. Tho manners and language of the people of a new country, especially those who have little culture, are, as on our Western frontiers even at this day, apt to be strango and hizarre to the fastidious notions of the polite. Our travelers themselves state the reaBOD, and that is, the investiture of such people with the ownership of the land which they live upon, begets a spirit of independence which manifests itBelf in boisterous conduct. We leave the city, however, to ACCOMPANI THE TBAVELBBS IO LONG ISLAND.

It was not many days after taeir arrival, that they started for that purpose, accompanied by their fellow passenger, Gerrit Van Dyne, as their guide, to conduct them through the woods and over tho hills which beset the way to the scattered hamlets of our couuty. We have first a mention of the ferry ot which they crossed, andfwhich was our veritable Fulton Feny the same landing our side of tho river at least, then as now. "We crossed over tho river," says the jour nalist, "about two o'clock, by a FEBB7. WHIOH IS FABMED OUT YEABLX, nnrl Trinla firm HcnmA rammm. nq it is nnitft several unsuccessful efforts elsewhere, finally established itself in FrieBlanajfWhqrjS they lived, men and women in a semi hloisferiid state, apart from the world and dedicated to the service of God, Of this body our two travellers were members.

Their names' were Peter Scbluter and Jaspar Danekers. Tho former had been educated a theologian; the latter had been engaged in the wine business, and had travelled extensively. They leit Wiewerd on I heir mission to America on the 8th of June, 1673, and crossed the Zuider Zee to Amsterdam, where they took passago in the ship Charles, for Now A V07AQE ACEOSS THE ATLAHTIC IH THOSE DATS was a very different affair from what it is at the present time. It was one of discomfort and hardships, of delay and duration, of peril and uncertainty. All vessels from Holland bouud to New York were required to touch at Falmouth in England in order to have their cargoes inspected and the duties on them collected.

In consequence of this and other delays, tho travellers did not pass the Lizard until the 27th of July. They were kept at Falmouth several days after they were roady to leave, by a report, which proved false, that the Channel was blockaded by twenty three Algenne vessels, and therefore, when they did put to sea, whenever they saw a sail during the passage, instead of hailing and speaking to her, they hauled off and gave the stranger as wide a birtb as possible, through fear that she might prove to be a pirate. Tho Charles was small and stowed full with goods and passengers. Sho was so low between decks that it was impossible to sit upright on a chair and hero in Btormy weather, whon the hatches were closed to keep out the water, the passengers suffered intensely from the hot and fetid air. There were some characters on board this ship whom wo should notice.

The owner of the vessel wttB a passenger. This was Margaret Philipsen, the wile of Frederick Philinsen, of Now York, who accompanied her, and both were on their turn from a visit to Fatherland. Frederick Philipsen became the richest merchant in New York, and this Margaret's fortuue was the foundation of his. She was close aud stingy by the common consent of the captain and crow as well as our travellers. Her husband survived her and married a second time.

He was the proprietor of the large estate iu Westchester county, known as the Philips burgh manor, and was tho grandfather of Mary PhiJipeeo, the first love of Washington, whose hand she is said to have repulsed. Tho vrouw Philipsen and her husband, with the oaptain of the ship and his wife, who were English, occupied the cabin exclusively. Tho captain was a Quaker, and had just married a young woman, who, according to tho journalist, was not much inclined to his religious views, especially as regards dress. "She was," ho says, "like an English lady, with the Dutch fashionsthat is, very proud and bedecked trilh gold and other jewelry." There were also among the passengers two individuals, with whom our travellers became somewhat intimate, and who wero inhabitants of this county. They also had been to Holland on a visit, and were on their return home.

One of them was Cornelisen Yan Dyno and the other was Jan Thonuisson Van Dyke. Garrit was a carpenter and wheelright by trade, and camo originally from Zwolle in Ovoryssel where he had now been. He had resided. iu this country for several years, aud was well acquainted with the people in the vicinity of New York, both settlers and Indians. He was afterwards proprietor of a farm adjoining A SSESSOKy1 di'trictto vwn Souih SeTenth street and Ut of Hontu Siith Heat, in 'he Oity of Brooklyn, beinDint si i poll the tRtpt mi BF Rivr, wbsr ihsmmn iieW0td by a li.Jjfijtf.wn turough ho centre of thi oloos bemeen Fonth to'TWr an(i boatb rhlid strops: in i run inrtDraoa rlsterlyonsaid lincdrai a iqni dfstant be tReeb South tccond and South Third itroeta to tie oo.it rn Twebtb street; ad thonco i rrtt frii aloiii thevent.o ot TwcKlh strew to a point where the urns would tuter sec a line dram throtutb the cantie ot tho block bat wa S'flCff and Wjc)ofT itrteta extooopd; tho no eastnly a'ouKiaid lite drawn iqal dttaul bstwa Stuff aod Wi ckefl strt ets to the cei of Smith street thence smti ari alooa th oaneo' Nmitb "treet to Ueoentte e' 6' uh ln? avenue ateV called Urooklm and owtiwa lW pi(s)! theDM weiterh tloiig tbt oentro of satd Pln4bln ivcnuo tt the oentro of Broadway: an I thrnoo westerly "duSbtlmoioapottt in Pai.o stroH vrhera a inn drawn ani tetmcn Bedfor.

and Wi enuei wjjlj lotcrsKt: end thence northwoatefji aionfaaW linodrawa Si IdMl "bftwNP Bedford and Wy.be 'J ocntreol Division aveone: ml thonoo westorty tfomrtoe contra ot Division vonueto thn Hast Btver: Dtrtfceri; aim ibo aat Rltor to the place of and tnat Oiey wil hear oartiei ln wtfd in th.reio boforo rmlntn the sud disU'ot, on Thun day tbe 16th Ai oi Mandi, at tea oeioot in ike fororcon, at thoii City Hall, Brooklja. lHtee; BrookHn, Fobrmry lfi6a 17 MARTIN RRKKN. PreUat. TWT0T1CE 0V ORDINANCE TO pjRBOr Jl lots to bo dug down. Notice Is hereby given to all parttes iLtoraated, of the intention of the Common Council of this (Jity to pass an Ordinance to direct Jots On block bounded by Bedford and Wytbe avonusa.

Taylor aod ChinersH And mi Mor on ttreot 8. 115 leov early from Wytue ov to bediuj dotvu to obxto a nuisance. Dated Brooklyn, FebruaTy 6tb. 186J. OAKLEY NO DYNE, Je8 1M Sift: tCoinmissioner, "VTOTICE TN THE MATTER OF THK Xl sonlkatien of tho Common (Jonncil of the Cifyof trooklyn, iu relation to opening Mnmmb stc ot from Fonrtb avoat'e toFi'thavni.

jl hi the Cityot Brooklyn. To all whom itmay concern: Tho report of the Commiionpr ot Rslimato in tha above entitled matiet nna couipletod and tiled in tha otbeoof thoOlcr'Kof tho Ooimtv oi Kinss whero it open for the inspection of all persons tnterostod Application will be made on behalf of the said Common Council, to tho (mnty Court ot Kiniri Coumy, on Motidiy. tho 5h day of March, lfcWi. at 10 o'clock in tho forenoon of that dry. or as toon thereafter as co can bo heard, touavoeaid ronort oonr5rmrtl.iiafidl,,o,irmry latb, WW.

JOHN C. StMIC.MAKKlt, fol3 td Attorney and Counsol toiho Oity of Brooklyn. NOTICE IN THE MATTER Ol? OPEK in Soutli biitbin street, from Fust etreat to tbo oer Piancit tiuo iu tho liajt UWcr, in tha city of Brooklyn. To all whom it may concern Tho niirtcrsipnod, Commirsioners of LSHmato In (ho abova cjxttjr, irill utt ut tho offlce of the At torrey and Couns'jllorof tbt' i 'ityot Rrooklyn. tn tho City Uallol said oily, on Fridir.

U.o J3J day ol Fobrusry, im; at i oVIrck in tbo aftcrno'in, tt hear tho orcott ar.d allcpalion oi" all partiiM intre toJ and will meet by sdjournmcrt 'roni time to Ume, aa may be duani ad nccdtPhry nnd oxpcdiPiiu Atthfltin.o an4 place itbove spocitifd. Title Deeds and other tdoocc3 of title shautd produced. Datod Fob. Bib. 1SCG.

(IRORCRTUOMPaON. JOHN A. BRA ii CommiflSionors. fcBtd MADK10B FTrzOKRALIU OK TiiKSTKKET COMMISSION Citr IfaM PHordSAlfi FOB I.UI.NT3H OTaTIOKhkV ttlt rHiitOMHON OOUA'OIL Scaled pruposnis wilt li iwoivcit oy tho Commun Coui cil, at too Mayor's otiice. until Monday, frebruary 10 h.

lffti iitSnclock I. for fiirnisbinsf btationory tor the vi.o of tbo Counon Ctmurii. as coaUlo to the POho' 'ula thpietcr on tile tbe otlico of the iftroot Co turn if inn or. Blanbe for estimating mrmshoti nt thoofflce of the Stratt Coiiiniirsionfr, ami runo will be considerod. rroj.Lale ill not bo coiiaiilereil uuless accomnanted with aroiiKent wriimaortrd anrelic3 of $5Ul oaoh.

on eacit proposal. IvXia shall tiunhf.v to thoir responsibility) tliatu Ihecomr.ict benwarded tho party pronosinif, they will become bound oh Iub mi rely for iti faithful mrformaiice; and in ciwo ho shall delect or ivtmo to oiocut thet oon traot. if aoawardrd, thru that thoy will pay to ths oity of Brooklyn tbo difference hotween the pnea so propoEod and tho price of tlin next highest btddor, to whom the 30ntraot may bo awarded ijw PropoEala to bo endorsed "Tn tho Common CounoU specifying tho work. IBrooklyn. Feb T.

lBPtf. By order ol tho Oonnnon Council. OAKLIZV NODYXB. feT td Street Uommismonor 'If laws 01'' TH 13 sautKKtlx)MMissT()N" Elt, No. 6 CITY ilALL PROPOiiALS b'Ott PRINTING HIMJTli.N.

Soulcd proposals will ba recetvea by the Comnioa Oonn cil t. the Alaj'or's until Monday, I'sbrusry W.h, ia6. at 3 o'clock unatinir tho minutes of thi mii'Oii duucil ami il roiinirod to blsud Iherpliop), the work to lw ono in conformity with the bftciiioaticiis on tilo in the otlico ol tuo rjet Caaimli 81 Blanks for rstimat'ng rurniAhedntthe otaceofthe street Coiiinii5 ionpr. nul noro other will bhcoiuiderod. rropouala will not bo umiiudorod unlws aocomuamed with a coiibeni in writina of two Hiiretios.

ot $U000 eaca. on oaoh proposal iwt shall qualify as to thoir responsibility) that if the contract bo awuMlod to tho party proposing, tiny will become bound as hi surety for ita taithrul per'ormatca and iu ope te snail nonlect or ro fuss toexcoutstho contract, if so swarded, inon tbatlboy will pay to tbe City of lircokli the diTorefttv botwoen tho price ao pro)osod and tho price of ihe unxt hhest biddor to whom tbo contract ma? bo awarded. iim PropoBatHto be ondorsod "To tbo Common Council." lhToltlYn. Foh. 13, 1846.

By orCer of the Con nw Coutioii. T. OAKLKY NOOYNB. frli Stri'ot Comiaiflviiiner OFFIOlfOF BTRKBT UOMMIriSIONBU, No. 6 City Hall.

Oakloy Nodyno, Stroot Commia eioncr. AN OB DIM AN OH TO OAUSK SIDRWAI.KS TO BE FLAOOhiD The Mayor and Aldonnon of the City of Brooklyn, in Common Couucil convened, do euaut as fol Scc. 1 Tbat tbe eidowalk in front of and adjoiuiugthe loteof ground at tb location: On Washington tfitwpn Ktat stand Uroonpomt art On L'vinjfion batwetiii Nnvinsttand FUtbum av OnlSih 6t Bt. botweei' SUi and Oth avs; Ou DeKrawftt, S. bctwnn Hicks st and Ohoavar place; On nim av.

8, bctwi eu tiionno nd Katile. On Comuiorcfi st, bo woen Von Hruntand Iml.iy. Ro ilapcdcach to the width of bix fa witn tirat quality ilagciiig atone, nottws than two inchos thick, nor loastnan two feob in width, and thrno foot in leiiKth, true and nmooth on top, at the expanse of tho owner or ownore Sec. li case the owner or ownon of tho Eaid lot), pleoos or parcels of ground sliall not comply with tho tir.i taction hereof, within ten days aitor the ftrbt publiuatioo of this Ordincjioe, tho Street Commitaionor is lioroby directed to ndvcrti.io for pr.iijosals for doing tho nocoswr work for complj'ini with this Ordinance, and ho obnll raport tho said proposals to tho Coinnmu Council to the end that the Common Council may direct a contract to ba made for doing tha said work at tho eipouso of suob owner or owners. Bet.

3 Notice shall bo givon to all porsonB by this Ordinnncr, by publication hereof in the Corporation NcffepaporBfor ten days, nnd tho advortitioineut (cr proposals as aforosnid shall bo published in such paocrs for ton succoFsive days. Beo. 4 Tbe oipon'o of thoF.iid work, which shill bo done purpuant to ilie second section borfof, shall bs asdOJ.wd and collected in the omo manner as for regulating, grading and paving streets. Adopted Januaiv Viith. 1CGS.

HENUY MtiCLOSKEY, City Clerk. Approved February nth. 18M. ftfilCd MaMTi BOOTH. Mayor NOTin'O lN THE" IWATTJOlt OX'ISiY irp South Ninth f.irtct from First strcnt i Uie pt rmanecit bulkhood liuo iti tliP Kaat Kivcr, in tho Oity of Hraoklin.

To all Tihor it mny coricfrn: Th undarmcno of Katiraas in a screen from the cold, whioh is not so severe there oS inland, for the reason that it has mora sea breeze, and in consequenoe of the 'saltae33 of the weyes breaking upon the shoals "which beset it There is bIbd an Island oalled Beeren Island, (that is, Bear's Island, now called Barren Island. We went round the point and came inside not fir from a vlllago called GraveBitat (Graveeeod) and thence returned homo. Wo saw on the way seveial kinds of grapes still hanging on the vinos. The variety called "speck" grapee is not good, They taste sweet at first, but leave afterwards a disagreeable feollng In the mouth. There is another kind, a small bine grape, which is better, whose vines grow ia good form.

Several attempts have been made ro plant vineyards of they have not sueceedod very well, though they have some encouragoment." Tbe next any they went over to the Bay at Amersfoort or Flatlands. We havo hore A DESOWI'TION OP WHAT THE DUTCH OALL A at uicd still in the phases, "the old Fly Market" The Hunter Fly road," and tho like. "We did not find tho land generally ns good as that of Nyack. There is a large piece of low "flat lund extending to the bou ovirflowcd at every tide. Such a place they call "Valey" (Fly) and mow it for pay which tho cattlo like better than fresh hay or grass.

It is too hard to be cat with a common scythe. Most of tho upland about there is arid and barren, aud some of it had for the last seven seasons scarcely produced a blossom, and yet it gave out such a sweet perfume that we discovered it in the air as soon as we arrived there. Bick of the village inland theie are meadows, but they are also now dry. All tho land from the Bay to the Ylaokebos is low and level without the least rise." The travellers went also to Gravesend and then returned to New York by tho way of Flat bush; but make no special observation of either of those villages, or tho country around them, except that the land was very flat. Thoy speak of crossing over Prospect Hill, which they describe as very stormy and "a hard road to travel." This concludes their first visit to this couuty.

I have omitted much in relation to if, which it would be tedious to recite on an occasiou like the present. But they returned several times atterwurds, aud present us witu two or three incidents which I oauuot retrain from introducing. It was in tho next Spring that tbey left Simon De Hart's house at Gowanus to go in a boat to Aquakenuck, at tho head of Newark Bay, to look at some land theie. On their return they fouud a party of Indians on the shore iu front of Simon's houso engaged iu a drunken debauch after performing a keniikoy. The sceus illustrates THE FATAL VICE OP THE POOK INDIAN and tho miserable selfishness of the Europtuu.

"We reached Gowanus Bay about eight o'clock in the evening. As wo approached tho shore we heard a great noiso and uproar, aud Indious shouting iu their huts. Tney wore lustily drunk, raving, beating, singing, fighting, jumping all together, and foaming at tue mouth like wild boasts. Some of thein who had abstained from drinking had fled with their wives and children to Simon's house, where tho drunken ones followed, bawling at tho doors which we closed against them. Tho Indians had this day gckintekayt, that is had their soroory; a woman having been (reed of the devil which, as tbey said, possessed her, and as it really seemed to be, Wo went in the morning to see them and fouud them engaged in putting up their tents again which in their frenzy they hod destroyed." From Simons thoy weut next day to Flat lands, on the Bay, and hero thoy mot the Dominie, who ministered to all tho Dutch towns of Long Island.

was too important to be forgotten, it was the Iioubc of Elbert Elbertsen Stootholf (hat they saw him. While we were aitliug there Domiuo VauZurcti camo alODg, to whom tbe farmers called out us uncivilly and impertinently as if he were a young man. They all had a disputatious time of it. Aa Jan Thcunhseu bad once Id us that If the Domine should have the luck once to speuk to us, ob! bow he would talk to us, anu that wc had aTolded him and therel'oro could not bo very goud men, we now sat near him and tlic firiiicrs with whom ho was convcrsiug. He spoke to us, but not a word fell from him on that subject.

But he chatted und goaeinped with the timers while they talked about worldly things wjtuout giving them a single word of reproof, or spcalc ing about God or religious matters. It was all about house an cattlo and crops. And with this the Doinine left." The minister so slightingly alluded to was the Rev. Caspnrus'Van Zurcn, who succeeded Domi nio Polhcmus in the charge of the Dutch churches of Loug Island. He was much esteemed and rcspecled.

fie returned lo Hollaud six years after tbiB imjidciit, mid died there. We accept, honcver, this portrait of liim as not inconsistent with that of a pious 'find faithful minister. We admire the teacher of divine trutb who can render unto Caaur the things which arc while he demands for God tbo things which are God's, who can secularize himself ut proper timeB to tbo worldly interest of his (lock, sympathizing (villi them in their cares aud anxieties to provide for themselves and their families. In so doing he qualities himself tho better to fulfil his mission by gaining their confldeuco. To talk of lanOB and cuttle and griin is to discourse of what tho primal course has made the necessary avocation of mankind und tho conditions of human existence.

With one more brief but noteworthy incident and we finish for the present the extracts from the "old manuscript." This is A VISIT TO THE WALED00HT. to a very important character in our history. "Mr. Do la Grunge and his wlfo," Biys tho journalist, "camo to ask us to accompany them in his boat to the Walebocht on Island, opposite Correlaer's Hook. lie had an old aunt living there and other friends.

Wo reached the hay in about two hours. It is a tolerably wide hay in which the tide ebbs and flows, but it is very shallow at low water, and much of it is then bare. La Grange's aunt is an old Walloon woman from Valenciennes. She lived in tho midst of her progeny, which now numbered oue nnn COUNTY COURT, COUNTY OP KI NG8 Jtrrls B. Howbnw.

Qount Trawarot of SuUjIk KHrjJgo. ta ihtmt, lilt. tuil jTOfpD Hnt.n!m! HiniM U. wlfor Junta O. BiCKcr and Niomi Mittoaws.

(WmiMntt. Joitra M. On JtawoOD. pfl' At In pnr'uarioa of a jnitfrmsnt order ot ion ooiin, m1 In tnotbovf nnltUadautionbanii7 data 6th dar ot Vtbtninr. l6C I will roll bj pubtio thaOom mtroial Eiclianire, No.

3a9 Fulton tutt, WppoMt ta Oitj Hall) Id tbo ot Brookbn. oa Uia ill dtr of Marob. t8C6, at la o'clock, noon, tto following doscrlbsd lin i nod oromiKu: Al! tint certain 1, dooi or Mrcol ot land Hnf lyiDK. and boinff lo tao Mith Ward of tbo Citi or urob'kif. branded and desirlbcd as ioIIoits.

to wit: BefiioniDs at a point ob tbo nortberlv lif or oida of Her kimer fluent, distant four honored nnitlft 460 fast weit erlyfron lbeutrtbeflethrorriQro( tiodanoctadY iveua? and Hirttiurratrtet; nmnina thtnoe noribortr, pirnliei nith Schenectady avoi.ne and turonah tbeoontro o' a out? wall, oee hundred COD) feci lo tbo oeotro of the bioon run ntva'tbencftnefl'er lr, tbrousb tueoentreof tbt blook and piiaUr) nith Uciltio street twontt flve (as) fejt; runninr orco tontooily and parallel with Scbeboetadt aTOuae ore hot rtied 006) fett to tbo rortberlj lino or il'o HeifclmT street, and mnnlncr tnonco oimeclj, alonn tbe northerly (idoot Bert'ncr afreet twoi.iy foe () foot ij the point or plco of beginning. TojothM wtit all ana aincnlar, tbe teremeut. borelitamouU and spparte ncea thereunto betonintir or in anywise appertaining. MY M. 1NOKAUAM.

R. SUPBEMB COURT, KINGS COUNTT Uanba A. LiTinm'oD, yHinUfJ. (tgamit Nwj IS, Kd moDdotd others, defonriaiw. W.

Taiif.iv PltfTn. A.i'y In onr tiarcoanrt by virtue ot a judgment ordfr of tfcd Court, made in tuo above entitled aoiion, hoii inx daio tho twenty eistb day ut I'ccerabar, 1669, 1 will nab at pabl EHOtiori, at tbo Oommfrciai li'xchariRO. numbni 3G3 Pulton street, in the Oity of BrooIslvD, Oountj oflviivjn on Uon day, tbo nineteenth day of Kebrawy next, 12 oVioult noon, tbo folloirir described landa and DroraliM: All tbrf)9 nine certain lot uf land, with Hie baildinn tbertun ercctrd, silua'o. ly.ojran'1 bolnjrin Town of in tbe County of Kings acd Siace of No fork, kaorrirn'id distinfiu'sbed on a eosd ot tbo Ranclyo nroparfcy, on ttt Brooliljnaad Jamaica rti'lrosd and Turnpike, malobv Maitio Johnson, and iitoJ ia Uio offlco or tha Clerk or Count of Kmsti, ai lotsnu nuuT 68J. Mi.6Sj,CS3 K6, 687 and 6Ss, wtich taketi together are bo and contains aa folKuvs: "ecinningr.t tho soi'tlnrt ndriy corner of tha Bnjokln and Jamttlua Turn uks and nutatK'et'.

"a tbo same 1 laiu down on said may; running fcheiicosoutboriy oiongtb" westerly g'l'c ot (Jtiostnut street aftrcaid twn bundrod fndrovpit. io feat, to tho northerly line 'if tbe lot nowa oo caid oi.i? by tbo nu nbur (ttTfllvuudroil aodeijtiity ii'ti; tbonce vostorly a'imx tin a.ui Inst. mpntii'UL'1. Hue ono Inudr md ih'ij (yat, tno (83trrly lino ot lot knon sail' map tho number 6TJ, row or lato the progeny or tr. Kdiuoni; along tbe Eat1" lastmpntionol liro two hundred nine to tbo turuplko; ttunce not.i oa iterly alone tho souiior ly Ride of tbo Turnpike 162 (oiQ imndctMi and 8ixU two (ot't.

to tan pbica oi boiriunioa: tocothpr witti all tbericLt, li'lo and mtorejt ot tho ot Uu tint of. io and to the ono halt of nich Pltrl 01 Jbp.ta.it street bb Itetf in fnmt ot $ia Ibi smo to bj usfld, b' wove r. ps a pub'io or road tbrovar. Ant) nlsu all tnovoccrnu. low.

situ.ttt. ndboiwr ir the Town M.Hbueti ttoresfiid 'iiown ar. di oil on a Mop tiled in tho Kmaa County OKuk's otfciit cmi tic1 Mao oi 9C6 I t' ot M'ruyo property on tho Kro3ktvrt aid Jamaica Wail Hond anil rurupikp ruuilo t(y Martini. nsiumb. rstSO 591.

592 iu.a 503, srlsicb taken topeiliiT nra deciilio a. 1 l'ollovs: atu ooiafcon the nreteriy mJo of Chcrnut ot'eehas tbo santi 1j hid dovn on said map, distant two humrod mul aav nty ffctEoufcl'Crly fiomtho couthweslerly comorof Ohnstnut ticof atorcHaiil ntt (ho tiro klyn J.vuii'm Turapilt, runn'MTthcucowtttrly on lino at rtjtht aaglai rf.h Ouer.lnut sirect. aforesaid ono huwhiMl and utty feat: thoncG ato on a Iido yar.illol xvh hnndrtd mid twraty livof ot: thcauo eastr on a lire witb rv.id Ch'Ettmt street hundred andiitty leot to tbo westerly aidtj ot 0 iftnnt Btrctt: Ihcice northerly Rloim tuo wrstn ly sua of said Cbeain'it ttrett one hundro and r.Tejiy tivn (ootto tlio place of eaiim'mc; locetliei ail tbu riihL, title and mtwtHt of ibo partio of the nrgl tart of, a.d totbf balf of Ciostnut street, lica umuli frontot tfeosujdlots. tne lame to b) nso.l hoitovor eii public sti cot or read ioriver. Datort Brooklyn, Jarauy Mb.

18TG jaGIaivGnS HENRY D.T&A8. Kelerm C3U1JHEME COURT, flonryS. Cobu tionry G.P'htjm. By virtuo and in pursuarce ot a jud inieat of Lho i preu Court and ntorud in the ivjjw ou'iilad action, andboarinuda'e tho tenth day of January, A. I), lEOti, I.

Samuel tue riterao thnrnin named, will offer and expose Cranio, at the Oiuiuerial ICxomago, No 369 Fultou htioet, oppt puo tho citi dl, in tin oity of ftrooklyn, in tho County of Kwiis, by ioo tS il. ane tionrer, on Mnndv. tholOtU day of tfohraar, tid, atflS) twclvo o'clock at noon, of tliui day tbo following pioport. lowit: All that conam hwo, datod HVlmt icy 31, HJ1. nado by Ednmnu Dmea, as CollottaroJ Ta.es nuit ssa menteof thoCily of Brooklyn, ol tho flwt Mr, to Jo mpti Hussod.oI tbocood pirt fur eight hundiod year from iho Mid 2lst of Febiuitry, 1861, and by thoaaid tin son duly nsfigued on the aid urst t'oy of May, I to tbo aid HcDry 0 Powers or ill thereat, residue und roTJ'itder of tho B.

iie tfrm of oieht undrod years of and is all tuit rfrtam lot. piccn, or parcel ot land situate, h'Ux and bi'wc in the Ninth Ward of tho eity ot Brooklyn, kuonnand distmyniBhod ir Itegifl'or of aaloi for null aid BStcssUi'nts In tbo ofhea of flaid of Taxes and Ateon ntnte, as paroal nu iibar 4, H8 (forty Mi hurdiod and, foity oiflbt), and lurthrr nown on map of Eaid improvement filed ic tbe oflics of the Streo'. Commisiioner of a iid oity aa and by the oment number 175 (one hundrod aud seventy tivo) bounded and dcetribca followf. to wit: a a poiufc on ibo eou borly eidr of Atlantic avenue, dtitt tmety idLO (GS) foot and niio iachps eaniarly fromt'e grutbeaterlj corner of Atlantic avenue and Wawanus lane orioid. thence running Bttithoasterb alonpr tbti weatorlj line r.f plot 176 on eaid map ono hundred and soventy four (I74)r(etnd six (6) inches; thonco oastorly fifty nine (59) feet and uir (9) inches: thence nortbweatorlj aJon lbs weettrly lice of lob Mo 174 (one hundred and neveuty four) on map, opo hundred and seventy iW (173) fei mora orfesitotbe southerly efdo rf Atlantic thence westerly alonir AfanUoavenuo: tbenoo vj ly nlonv At loutio avoDueflfU nme (59) 'hot tndope (1) inch to the place bccinninK.

Brooklyn. KinM County. Jau. 11 S. F.

OLAKKaON, ttflfwe. 2atS 42 Pinaitraot. H. Y. NOTICE TO CREDITORS PUtESU ANT to an order of Uon.

HORRIS FOSDIOK. Surrogato of the County Quftons, notice ii herehy civen to ail ier bodb having claims aeafnst tbe estate of uKMlV BAB CLAY, late ot tha Town of Hswtown. in th said County oi Queena decoaaod, to whiblt tbe same wth ttiovouoti era thireof, to the aub'oribers, at No. 61 SViliiaiu street, ia the City of Xew York, on or before the 25th day of Apri toxt Lated October mh. 1865.

J. MOORR. WM. 8. MOOR flixeoutors oUlanemS ABM.

D. D1TMAH3. IPURJSUANOB OP A.N ORDEH OS A KOSWblLLO. tq.t Bnrroffata of Uis (isnntfof Kings: Koucb ia hereby given, aeoordtrjs to law, to ait remcm oktiur olaims npiiurt TUEUJJOltE lata ot the City of Brookljn. deceaued, that thc are rcjturnd to exbibtt ihc tamo, with tbe voucher thereof r.o too mbihers.

attbo otlico of Theodore Poltieraui A No t9 Bioad reel, in tbo City of Now York, oa or before tb Hvenftentfr of May Da fifl Jovecfcor. Otij, UBS. MAIUA POLURMUS. ABBA HAM D. POHfiMflS.

B. BBKTA. BBlNKKuHOFJf. noli aw6mH SJS i UKSiU AWOJfi OAK OKWlflHOi? ROS J. WELL 0.

BRAINABI, Keq, Burrogata of chs Ooant of Kincs: Notice la lure by fivem aecerdinji in ia. eli percent navins claims tsainst JOoKPU 1SOBLU, late of Lbi Oitj of Brooklyn, deceaaod, that they are required to exhibit the same, with the vouchers the roof, to the auhperi oers, at their office, No. Ill Broadway, Koom No. 35 Trinitt building, io the City of New York, on or before mchieiitb. 6j ot Fehiunry nxt.

Dated Aiisust Uth, 1865 niaiawCmS JOHN T. HBAJfrO, 15x0011 60 Ijsj FUBSUANOB! OF AN OUl5riR QV UOS WKLL J. GRAIN AUD, si Hurrogt of ihs Couuty if Kings, Notice ia hjeby given, aocor iina to law, to all parsint having claims arainst A MiCMOUGAf. (ait of tho City of Biooklyn, deceased, that tbey are feitnirdi to exhibit tbt same, with tbn vonchen iberof, to tbo iub seriber. athiBoffic, o.

80Beavr street, in tho City of New York, oa or before tbo bTenty niuth day of Juue, nut, Dated December x2d, 1SG5 CHARLHS HKADIfUSON, dJO lawfiiD'S HTrXliCUTORS' SALM WILli Bl SOLD MJjt at public auction. Fobruarv 71st, 18K1, at 17 oVb). at the Commercial Kxchmge, 369 Fulton atreet. Broo'dyn, by J. Colo, Anct'onoor.

tho valuable briok house ami torn, no, 137 Bridge atroni. bitween Sandi and Hign siren's. It is well built; tbelotis2fi feet by DO. Also the eiollnut frame bouse and large lot adi'oinfotr, 135 Bridge street. Alao the one qoalM part of 4 lota of ground on 113tb st.

in the 12th Ward ot tho City of Now York, diatinttuiahed on a map of land purchased by Mi Moors, untitled Proi poet Tract." as 3G1 362, 363 and 26 1, and Uken together decnb( don aid map aa No. 79. Also 8 fbare of tho Market Bank Stock, now known tbo Market National Rfli.tnf thftCitrnf NflwYurk. Also 33 ihftffu of tht itoolt of tbellbmiltonFirelnsnrinceComDinyof Now Y' rh. The proQcrty af ovp doscribed is to ba m3 to ctoo no tho eatito of Samuol B.

TutbiU, deaea od. by tbo executor who w'ii eive all tno information required at 1M Clermont avenue, near DeKalb. Broeklyn, Deo. 27th. 1865.

d01aw6wb M. B. BKOrYN, Ewcwrt UHERIFJf'S HAIjE BY YIRTUK OF A IO writ of execution, issued out of tbe Court of Common Pleas in and for the City and County of New rlc. to me directed and delivered. I will sell by public auction, on the premises heroioalter named, iti the Oity oi Brooklyn, on the 26th day of lfobaary.

1889. at VI o'clock eqod, a)J tho riffht, title and interest whicb H. YOUNG had on tho 23d day of December, 1865, or at any time thereafter, in whose hands soever the same may bn, of, in and to, All that cortaiu lot and premises on th nnrtberl flie ot York atreot, dUtnt on hundred and flrtj sevenieot easterly from the northoaijtorly comorof Jay and York streets, and being twenty two foot in width front and rear, by nine'y feet.udopttion each aide. Dated Brooklyn. Jan.

13, 1866. H131awCw8 JOHN MoNAMDK. Sheriff. NY. SUPREME COURT, KINGS COUNTY Adam Bailey, OorcaRtuaoll and Aon.

his wife; (ieorge Crawford and Phebe. hia wife, Paiutiifa, againei Thomas Hamilton Bailor, au infant, Sarah A. Bailey, Ihomas H. Parfln, John Faron, Hamiltm B. Firon, and Hnam A.

Faroo. the two laat ntmed helnar infants, Delendaota. Hununona for relief. (I, 8. f3tamp, Be oentr.) To tho defendant: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this notion whioh was filed in ao oilice oi the Clerk of tho County of Kings.

Slate of New York, on tbe 16th day of January, 1869, at tha Connty Court Bouse, City of Brooklyn, and to serve a copy af your answer to the said complaint on tha aubecrifcer, at his office. No. 337 Fulton street, in said City, within twenty day i after the service of this summons on yon. exolnsiva of the aay of snch 'service; and if yon fail to answer the said complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs ia this actio will apply to the Court forth relief demanded la ihe coapJaint. Dated January 12th, 1866.

v. V. i. STANTON. Plaint ifTa Attorney.

ja26iawews I It PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF ROB WELL 0. BRAIN ABD, Ssq SniiosaU of the Counts of Kings: Notice li hereby riren, aocordbig law. pemni havirur claims siainBtTiKOKOB 0. MANN, latt of tha Oity of Brooklyn, deceased, thai tbey art reauired to ixhihit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the sub Mhber, the administratrix, ak her residence, 130 ffilloir itreet, in the City of BrooVlyn, oa orbsfora thslOth day af AucostDext. Dafcad February 2d.

1M6. feT law 6m TV ASH MARIA MAfvN. Admltlstrsirix PURSUANCE OP AN ORDER OF ROS. WKLL 0. BRAIN AED, Bsq.t Sarrogate of the Ooant? aQbivQ im Mmrvuj airrxa.

uvrntmog rami (rerims iinss oj iiuwion wuwpui. iuu luiwuiuvr, attheoffceflf Hturner A Smith, No. 9 Wlllougbhy street, ia the City Brooklyii''oB or before the twentiotb day June aext, Pat1 Dereinbs' 13th, 1185. niUlawflmTa WILLIAM NBX8BN, Rxaootor NOTICH IN TUB MATTBR OF OPKN "inff Princ street, from its present northerly ter. minus ta Concord itr, in tbe Citytf Brooklyn.

Tpjdlwliofflitmiyooiicein: The undersigned, Oomraisaioaors ot iti mate In the above' matter, will meet at th office of the Attorney ana" Counsellor of the City ot Brosblyn, in th Oity Hall of said oity. oa Thursday. ththqajot Febraary; lfiev, at 2 o'clock in the atternoo. to hear tbo qtoqU and allegations of all parties latereated; and will eoiitiaae to meet by adjournment from time to time, aa aa be deetn sd ceo wary and expdUat. At the time and date share aneciiied title deeds and other evidenca sf title ihoald be producflt.

Datd Jfroalrtyn, lebriiaiylHhJiett i WILLIAM N. CLEM, ISAAC BADBaU, Oottmiesioneri. fUtd J08KPH T. BAOfeWT. SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY Henry S.

Coha tgainat Henry 0. Powers and SUixa heth Powers. Br virtue and ia pursuance or ajcdvment of the Sapreme Ctoart mad and entered in the above entitled aotfoo. and bearinR dat tbe tenth day of January. D.t 1896, 1.

8am uei F. OlarkaoB the referee therein named, will offer aad expoao for aile at the Commercial Eichange, tto, 369 iru) ten street, (opposite the City Halt.) in the Oity of Brook, In the (xmnty o( Kinfii, bv Jacob Cole. auoUoneer, on Moadiy, the lita day ot February. 1866, at (12) twelve o'clock at noon of that day, thefojiowlntr property, to wit; All that certain gore, lot, piece or pa.oel of land situate, lyuur and ia the aid Oity ot Brooklyn and deabjnated on a map of 'the PearuH farm drawn bv J. 0.

Wells, and dated April ,16. tho number 8 (eight) bounded and oontainlns islollowa: Com men cine at a pwintoa tbeaoathwestilvsloa of tha tflattmsh fnrnplke, as laid down on siia map, where the oentare hue of the blook between A tlantio avenue and PaoiBo Btreet tateriecte the wid turnpike at the rear ef lot BUtobetjW (mnetMD): tbbnoe along theiaid centre llne westwardly to land lata of James Bird sal now of tbe said BeyryG. Power, about nUhw. thence nDftherly.alorgasidPoaerf'Hid. about fifty serea feet and 'seven iuchM.to the aonthweaterlr Hue of said two feet, three ioobei; tidt otiuattitvpikBMBottt bo9tinadnd iset fix inoor 1, A I aha, wlnkt UW UWUVVt I title and inti 1 nrTi mk toki place Of And alio all the nb.

erest of tbe aaid Powers to auch para, or sata au laid downed said oppoiiU and MOtbinnj ta tnd IromiMOB said, ranted nromtaes fkmntw: Jafln taeoenwe or aaia ratapiaa ro w. ywi i jitbKts i OL A BKBON. Refflm. ta Pin it. N.Y.

selves colli at, uowanus ana inenaxiouuuv, which derived its name from 'that' faot tha WalBch's bay. These people lived on the borders of the SpaniBh Netherlands, and were no doubt attracted here by the facilities of gaining a livelihood not like the Huguenots' later period, who came for religious reasous. The name of Gowanus is a purely Indian one which philologists as yet have been unable to explain. It was applied to alt the land frontiDg on Gowanus bay. Simon De Hart's house was at the southerly end, on the farm adjoining the land of the Hon.

JohuG. Bergen, and the village of Gowanus was along the old Mnil wtiinh nnoanj ll.a nlil antranAR nf f.hn ivbu uwdu UJf vv v. I.Greenwood Cemetery, at 36th street. vanf nn Nyack, now called Fort Hamilton, where they visited the Indians who had boarded the vessel at (he Narrows, They give us quite a circumstantial account of this tribe, and as it is the only oue that has been transmitted to ns of tbo Indians of this county, its novelty, if not its interest, will atone for its length: "After breakfast, we took our departure from Simon's; we went partly through the 'woods and partly over nowly cultivated lands, aud so along the shore to the West end of the island to a place called Nyack, aud came to the PLANTATION OF THE STACK INDIANS, which was planted with maize, or Turkish wheat. We presently heard: a pounding, like thrashiug, and thereupon wo went in tho direction of the sound, and found an old Indian woman busily engaged in beating Turkish beans out of the pods with a stick, whioh Bho did with a force and dexterity which astonished us.

Gerrit asked her iu the Iudian language how old she was. She answered eigty years. Wo went from thero to her dwelling, where wo found the whole tribe, consisting of nevon or eight families, and twenty or twenty two pursons. Their house was long and low, about sixty free in length aud' fourteen or fifteen in breadth. Its floor was the bare grouud; tho sides and roof were made of reed aud the bark of chestnut trees; the posts were branches ot trees stuck ia the grouud, and wore all fastened together.

The top or peak of the roof was left open about six inches wide tho whole length of the house, from oue end to the other, in order to permit tho smoke to escipo, in place of a chimney, The roof wa3 so lo at, that you could hnrdly stand uprightunder it, and tho doors or entrances, which wero at each end, were so small tbt't you got through them only by creeping and squeezing. Tho doors themselves were made of reed or flat bark. hero waB no stono, or lime, or iron, or lead iu tho whole structure. They make fires in the middle of tho flour according to the number of families living in it, so that from one end to the other each family builds its own pot aud eats when it chooses; nor does the whole of each family eat together, but eaoh individual eats when he is hungry at all morniug, noon and night. There are cooking uteusils by each firo, consisting of a pot and a bowl or calabash.

When they sleep they lie on mats, with their feet to the fire. They do not sit much on anything raised up, but geuerilly either sit on the ground or squat on their ancles. Tho other articles in the house consist of a calabash of water to drink, a bosket to hold their corn and beans, and a knife. Their implements ore for tillage, a small sharp stone, and nothing more; for, hunting, a gun with pouch for powder and Bhot; and for fishing, a oanoe, without mast or sail, or a nail in it, though it is some times forty feet long, with scoops to paddle with instead of oars, and fish hookB and lines, and perhaps some other Iriflmg articles. All thoss who live in ouehouse are usually of oue stock and kin, fathor, mother and their descendants.

Thoir bread is made of maize, pounded in a block with a stone but not fine, mixed with water and baked under the hot ashes, They gave us a piece of it when we entered, and although the grain was coarse and notjpe, and tho cake was only half baked, we had to eat it or at least not throw it away, for that thoy considered an affront as well as a sin. We managed, however, to hide it when they were not observing us. Wo bad then to drink with them out of their calabashes, We met here the Indians who came on board our ship in the Narrows. They all rejoiced at the return of Gerrit, who was an old acquaintance of theirs, and had lived near them formerly. We presented them with some Jew's harps.

Some of their chief' men, who spoke good Dutcn, and medicine men, who are also their teachers, were busy making shoes out of deer skius, which they render soft by constant working with their hands. Thoy had dogs, hogs and poultry, which they had learned from the Europeans how to keep. Although they are such a poor misa erable people, they are wanton, proud, knavish and given to mockery. Observing a very old woman among them, we inquired her oge, whereupon aomo youug fellows aaswerotl, laughing and jeeriugly, twenty years," when from all appearance she could not have been less than an hundred. We saw here how the women earned their children.

A woman had one child she carried on her back. Tho littlo thing clung tight round her neck like a cat, where it was kept fast by means of the piece of cloth which the mother wrapped round' herself for her garment." The spot which these ladians occupied was the point of land upon which Fort Hamilton is built. The term Nyack was not uncommonly used for different localities by the According to the Dutch pronunciantion then prevailing, it would be called Nyauk, simi larly to Montauk. The terminative syllable of these two namesafc or auk are identical with that of many other Indian names on Long Island, such as Merikoke, Shinecock, Mati ne'eock and others which have been preserved with an English authography, It probably means in all these cases, place or locality, while the first portion of the word of each indicates some particular quality or condition peculiar to that place. Wo discover from this circumstance in their language that the Indians of Long Island, from one end of it to the other, all belonged to the same family, usually known as tho Lenni Leuape or Delaware family, though they may have been divided into tribes hostile to each other.

Wo havo, however, no evidence of any such warlike relation. The Nyack or Nyauk Indians, with that improvidence which has ever marked the race and made them the victims of tho cupidity of the while man, had about twenty five yoars before this time sold the entire tract of land extending from Fort Hamilton to Gowanus for a few knives, jackets, blankets and other trifles, stipulating never to return. But this bargain they neither would nor could perform; andjthey were still occupying the land where our 'travellers found them by the mfferance of the owner, whom the travellers now proceeded to visit 1 Leaving the Indians," they continue, "we came to THE HOUSE OF JAQUBS COBTELTOU, whose land yields fine crops of wheat andother grain. The soil is black, but not olayey, ro sembling garden mould in Holland. We found Jaques at home.

He is a man advanced in years. He was bom in the oity of Utreoht, of French parents, as was ovident in his gestures, looks and speech. He had studied philosophy in his youth, and spoke Latin and French. He was a mathematician and sworn land surveyor. He had acquired" various sciences and had some knowledge of medioine The worst of it was, he was a.

oastesian and regulated his life by principles of reason and justice. Nevertheless he regulated it by those principles better than many of those in these parts. do who oall themselves Ohristians.i and his wife bid ub welcome to their house, and treated qs with every attention, although two of his sons were lying siok which o'ontthed him closely, interrupted him in his affairs and sorely afflicted both him and his wife. "We" walked oyer his land, and towards, evening' came to the village of New Utreoht, was so named by him. It had been burnt down some time before, as aiso naa nis owhhouse, two miles distant.

The villagers been "entirely rebuilt, and several fine stone houses have been erected. We returned to his house to spend the night We went after supper to sleep in the barn upon straw spread wtyh'ebeep skins, and in the midst of such a constant granting of hogs, squealing of pigs, bleatinc and' onnohina of sheep, barkind of do'gsand crowing of cooks, and these too wim ine nam aoor open tnrougu nuuuu northwest wind was blowing, that we could not sleep; but we oould not oomplain as we had the same quarters his own son usually slept in, who now in order to accommodate us slept on the'straw." 'lhej residence of Jaques Oortelyon, the founder of New TTtrAnht. at whioh the travel lew had. now arrived, was situated an half a mile or more beyond the point of Fort Hamilton on the probertv lately owned by Jpcob Bennet, fronting on the outer bay The next day being Sunday, the travellers tporawaiK along the shore, separated by the oreek from CONST ISiiHb. THAT TAHOWJ MSOBT of staid citizens in former times, and, of fast raen in wasi then only a bronzing place for, cattle." ''V 'vi'ius sva the: journalist, "is low and'sandy, of about two hour's oircuit Its westerly Mmtr'formR with Sandy Hook, the entrance, into thaharbor from the sea, i It ia cbveied with 'thickets 'and bushegV' Nobody toea'tfpoh itj but it is used in winter to horses, cattle and iwine xmjmj vhiohiind cient pasturage there for the whole winter; and EARLY SCENES AND SETTLERS OP KINUS COUNTY, Paper Read by Don.

OeBry G. Murphy before bo ong Island Historical Society. At a special meoting of the Long Island Historical Society, held on Thursday evoniag last, at thoir roomR, No. 16 Court street, the PresidoDt J. Carson Brevoort, in the chair, Hon Henry C.

Murphy read some piwsages relating to Kings County, from a Dutch Journal, in manuscript, of a voyage from Holland to New York, in 1670 80, with explanatory remarks. The manuscript was obtained by Senator Murphy, from Amsterdam, and an English translation, is about to be publisned uader the supervision ot the Historical Society. It abounds in quaint and strikiug passages, descriptive of various settlements in tUis country nearly 200 years ago, and will form aa invaluable addition to the early history of civilization in America. The result of our two travelers' mission was the establishment of a colony oi Labadists at the head of Chesapeake Tay, which has, however, since become extinct. Ladies and Gentlemen The passages to which attention is invited to night, derive all their interest from the fact that they relate to the PfllMITIVJS PEEIOD OP THE CIVILIZATION OF TUIS COUNT.

They would otherwise be (oo simple for reproduction. Tbey embrace reminiscences so soon after the surrender of the province to the English, that many of the original Dutch settlers vjero htill living, and with their descendants and those of their compatriots who had died, constituted its population almost, it not quite, exclusively. Few Englishmen had seated themselves within its limits, and such as had done so, were some who had come here while it was yet utider the jurisdiction and government of tho Dutch, and who had, by intercourse with their Dutch neigabors, became assimilated to them in manners and customs. At this poried, too, the original Indian population within the county remained to a considerable extent. They still hold the land in common possession witli the settlers, cultivating small patches of ground, of which they retained the occupatiou, and when their crops were gathered, roving from place to place for the purpose of fishing and hunting.

For these latter objects the country was still well adapted. The creeks and bays yielded fish and oysters in great abundance, and tho hills were covered with forests in which the deer still had their haunts, in the southern part of tho county the flatlands, which had formerly been the corn lauds ot more numer native tribes, were formed with broad and fertile meadows. Thus the face of the land was not greatly chonged from its condition when first discovered by tho Europeans. To those who study the small beginnings of history a coup d' oei of this interesting period as presented by a traveler at the time, will not be unacceptable. Whilst residing in Holland a fow years ago, I accidentally met with a journal of a voyage made from that country to New York, embracing journeys through the inhabited parts of the territory now forming tho middle States of tho Union, the years 1679 80.

It had never been thought worthy of publication. It had been tossed about as production of no value as of a time and of a people forgotten and passing thus from hand to hand, bad fallen into tho possession of a bookseller at Amsterdam, irom whom I obtained it. The causes of this negleot were obvious. 'It was a particularly minute account of persons and scenes which excited no interest in Holland, Nobody there knew, and honco cared, anything about them. On the other hetad it did not, bie many early accounts of America, deal in iabulous stories, and wonders and.nioMtecs; and hence could not be used to create a marvel or, in most modern phrase, "a sensation," so as to render it a good speculation or a publisher upon the pockets of the credulous.

It was a circumstantial narrative of the simplest incidents of a journey of two persoEB made for the purposo of obtaining snch information as was necessary to enable a religious community, of which they were members, to judge of the propriety of establishing a colony of their faith in this country, and to find a proper place for the purpose. This particularity, too simple and too local to attract the attention of strangers, made exceedingly interesting to me. Portions of the journal related to this county, and I found reference to places and persons with which I was familiar by my own knowledge or tradition. Upon examioation I was enabled to establish the pertect authenticity of the whole acconnt, and to ascertain some carious details relation to it, which it is not necessary now to state. My purpose at present is lo make some extraots of local interest from this narrative and to accompany them with some remarks touching the points alluded to by the journalist.

Lest, however, there might be some misapprehension as to the character of the journal I should here distiuctly mention that the portions relating to this county constitute a very few pages only Out of several hundred of the journal, which embraces travels over all the territory lying within the settled parts of what now constitutes the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware and parts of Maryland and Massachusetts, presenting a view of the country in that extensive portion of the United States, of the homes and manner of living of the first settlers, the operations of the provincial governments, and other kindred matters of the olden time, existing nowhere else in this narrative like state. And now, in older fully to understand the account, U3T MB PTBST INTBODUOB THE TEAVELLBES. They belonged to a community or religious sect called Labadists, at that time established at Wicwerd in Priesland. This body was in some of its essential features, snch as silent prayer and repudiation of the style and fashions of thoworid similar to that of the Quakers, and in some of itn practices not unlike the Shakers. Like the latter they live together in one or more each society with all the property of its members in common.

They depended in fhoir religious exercises upon the speoial influence and moving of the spirit of God. They deemed the observation oi the holy saoraments and study of the Bible of secondary importance to inward prayer and contemplation, regulating their oonduot, like the mystics, by an inward light from God. When they partook of tho Holy Communion ther.did bo in order to drink for spiritual joy; and afterwards they danced together in holy pleasure. Yet this strange body was an offshoot from the Dutch Reformed Church, and was, upon an official investigation of its doctrines and belief by some of the most eminent divines of that church, declared to be in entire conformity with the confession of the Synod of Dort and tho Heidelberg Gate chum, Its founder, from whom it derived its name, was Jean do Labadie, a minister of tha Walloon Church at Middelburgh, in Zee land. He was a Frenchman by birth, was educated in a college of the Jesuits, became, a priest of that order, afterwards joined the Jansenists, then entirely apostatised from the Cath'olio faith, professed Protestantism, and 1 was installed a minister of the Protestant Church at Geneva, from whence his fame for elOOUence and zeal in rflTivinff th nlinrnhna from the dead and formal condition into whioh tfcej had fallen, extended into foreign countries and led io his being called into Holland.

But bis restless spirit showed the same impatience of ecclesiastical restraint there, aa it had manifested in all his previous Ufa. 1 He sought tpiieforin the Dutch; Churob, and in doing so depreciated the learning of its' miniates and the' authority of its synods. This course soon involved him iri.difljdulty and led nis expulsion from his ohuroh at Middel hB W4 already acquired a riosi brat ot influence among the and his poweWM eloquence, which were unequalled, remained. Crowds gathered to shear Whiwerilr hespnwSi many beheTtog him to inspired, as heindefld pwtended. with the 'bandonsa their parjuhw, ladieg of noble birth, irarwondedby all thecbrhforbi and luxuries of.

life, left their men of property (sold their estates, and all 1 followed him intn jjpmmunity which he formed, and which, after a thoroughfare, in consequence of Long Island being odo of the most populous parts of the country and of the large number of ladians who live tnero ana gam tneir nveunooa oy fishing and hunting, and who must, in order to this ferry or boat it over themselves, which it Is tree for everyone to ao, eitnor in ms own boat or in a hired or borrowed one. Tho fiire fst. nnl. wnvonTi io fliroo chiivprn in 5aflwn.n (tfiat is, the Indian mouoy usually oalled wam pum, equot to tnree iourcu oi a oeatj. xaey ncnil a rnTO hnof t.linncrh.

wlion f.hfl wind is favorable, they havo a sail boat for the pur pote. "When wo reached the other side, we went up tho hill and llmugU the woods, in an open i it. wagon, io wo PIUS! VILLAGE, CALLED BEEUKELEH, which has small, unsightly church standing the middle ot tne road. Tins is all tao travelers deign to say of tho village whioh formed the nucleus ot this great city, and from which it derives its name, so utterly msignih cant was tho place at that time. We learn the fact from this account, nowever, that tho village was situated about a mile from the river, at the present junction of Fulton uve.

aud Bridge street, and that tho land between there and the ferry, embracing tne ileiglits, was covered with woods. The old unsightly church stood in the street opposite tho old b'uryiug ground, whioh still remains with its moss covered tombstones on our greatest thoroughfare, the only existing memorials of the old village. This village of Broukelen was one of four or five neighborhoods within the limits of tho present city of Brooklyn having distinct appellations, and having each a small collection of houses, namely the Ferry, Breukeleu, Gow anus, and the Waleboght. Breukelon derives its name from a place of the same name ia the province of Ulrecht a quiet, antiquated village, beautifully situated on quiet stream called tho Yecht, and famous for nothing ex oept for being the birthplace of a race of giants at some remote antiquity. Skeleton? of men eight and ten feet long were exhumed from under the old church tower a oentury or two ago.

From all I oould soe or learn of it on my visit to it there have been no other giants there of any kind. Thejnoaning of the name is marshy or watery land, which is the character of the land in the neighborhood. Our modern name of Brooklyn is a corruption of the Dutoh name, and in the process of transmutation was preceded by several other forms, especially Brookland and Brookline. It must be confessed that Brooklyn is as meaningless a same as well as can be. It remindsus of the request of Ford in the "Merry Wivegviof Wmd enr'" him my TmmA Is Tlrook! nnlf fnr A Iftnt." Although the travellers did not consider the village of Bfeukelen worthy even of a call, thoy were more pleased with the lural homes of the people of the town.

They proceeded up the old road towards Flatbush until they struck the one leading to Sowanus on the right, which they pursued. We now see HOW THE BETTLEBS LIVED, and we let the journalist tell tho story. "DriviDg through the village of JBreukelen," he says, we passed by several farms where Gerritt was well acquainted, and where they made us welcome, regaling us with whatever they had, such as milk, cider, fruit and tobacco, but first and espscially with different kinds of brandy or rum whioh had been brought from the Barbadoes and other West India Islands, and which tha Dutch here call JfiijDeuil. Although it is bad to taste and very expensive the people use it extravagantly. I cannot tell how many peach trees we passed on the way so heavily laden with fruit that many of them were broken down in consequence.

Wo came to one place where so many had fallen irom the trees that the ground could not be seen, and you could not put your foot down without trampling upon them, and yet, notwithstanding such large quantities had dropped off, the trees still hung as full as they could bear. The hogs and other animals were feeding on them. This place belongs to the oldest European woman in the oountry. We went into the house where she was living with her children. We found her sitting by the firo smoking tobacco incessantly, pipe after pipe.

We inquired her age and they told us it was an hundred years. She came from Liege, in Flanders, and spoke to us in good Waalsene (that is, old French.) Sometimes she talked very well, at othertimes not so well. She showed us several large apples as specimens of the fine fruit of the country, different from those of Europe. She had been here about fifty years, and had about seventy children and grandoildren. She saw the third generation after her.

Her mother lived to the age of one hundred and twelve. We tasted here for the first time smoked iwaelft (smoked bass), a fish so called because it is caught in season next after the elft (shad). It had been salted a little and then smoked, and although it was more than a year old it waa very fine, and in flavor not inferioy to smoked salmon. We drank here also for the first time new cider which was excellent. "We proceeded from here to GOWA1TSS where we arrived in the evening at one of Genit's best friends, named Simon.

(This, was Simon Aerdtseu DeHart, whose granddaughter married Simon Bergen. These are. familiar names). He and his wife were both glad to see us. He took us into the house and entertained us excedingly well.

We found a good fire built half way up the ohimney made of clean oak and hickory which they made no scruple of burning profusely. While we were warming ourselves there thrown upon it to roast a pail full of Gowanus "oysters, whioh re the best in the country. They are large and less than a foot They grow, together sometimes as many as ten, twelve and sixteen, and are then as heavy as a piece of lead. In consequence of the immense quantities of them, they use the shells to burn into lime. They pickle the oysters in small casks and send send them to the Barbadoes and other islands.

Besides these roasted oysters, IH HAD JOB SUPPEB a roast saddle of venison, which Simon had bought of the Indians, giving fifteen cents for thirty pounds; The meat was excellent tender, quite fat and of a slight spicy taste. We then had served upa wild turkey, and finally wild goose, and all these were the plain, natural food of the country1. We'lkd aso watermelons, from a large heap which Simon had 'gatheredhis last pulling for the purpose of tak ing to the city to sell. It waa lataat night betore we re urea to rest ujiuu a hmcwb ubu, they call it; in a corner of the ohiaiheyi beside the Whether, after partaking of this trnlx substantial suDper. which .1 may be per mitted to doubt whether it oould be beaten by the most hospitable oi tne termers pt uowanus at the day, they dreamed of being backed Bv seme hugely am tiered stag, or peak ed at, Prometheus like.iby some enormous gob ler, or oaught within' the, shell of some' great bivalve, 'they 'io not say, but if they, did ii must have been because there was, no such thing as nightmare in dayB of hard work and' simply prepared Bat eertain it Is they sleptso late in' the morning thai when; the found Siinon andOeertje, his 'Vife, had taken the watermelons in a boat; agS ittfrtft pTei Jhey here, ttowerer, befoie resuming their journey.

While ttiej 'ire; domg thiilet'reflectaimo ment 6 what has been just described I We1 learn here, as we will also presently have con. firmed, that among the" first settlers' there were Greenwood cemetery, on martsnses lane. Jan Theunisen was a son in law of Elbert Elbertsen Stoothoftj of Amersfoort or Flatlands, a man of some distinction in the province, both before and after the English conquest These two persons promised to assist the travellers carrying out the object of their jour ney, and the one hist named rendered himself particularly serviceable to them in that respect; and it was under his auspices that they traversed this county. The voyage was not varied from the usual monotony of a sea voyage. The travellers amused themselves in making observations of the latitude and calculating the longitude, and in fishing for dolphins and other creatures of the sea.

But as thoy approached the Bermudas they had indications of a storm. The route then usually followed from England to New York was by way of the West Indies; and this Isle of Devils, "the still vexed Bormoothes," was reputed to be a place of continued thunder and lightning, which, in the darkness of the night, disclosed in its gleams frightful forms and faces and apparitions of the damned, The travellers had read these early fabulous accounts in their youth, in the Silver Poortklok, and they confessed to have believed them especially as such things had occurred according to the authority of Holy Writ. They were the more inclined to believe these stories, beoause the discreet pilot of the Charleswho was an honest, truth loving Dutchman, and who had passed the Berniudos many times before, declared that he had never done so without encountering a storm, and that on one occasion "being close to the Island and beset by severe gale ot wind and rain oa a lee shore in a dark night, ho observed the air full of strange faces with wonderful eyes standing out of them." True to the signs on the present occasion aud the traditions of the past, the storm now came with terrific fury and raged with unabated violence for nearly forty eight hours. The ship seemed buried in the sea and rolled so fearfully that tne yara arms toucnoo, mo waves as she keeled; but no visions of the supernatural appeared except in the imaginations of the terror stricken passengers and crew, who expected every moment to be swallowed up in death. The storm, however, finally subsided with the little ship still buoyant.

They laid their courso thence for Sandy Hook, and without further accident ENTEBBD THE HABBOWS on the 23d of September. Here a novel scene presented itself to the travellers. It was their first view, and at the same time, of civilized and aboriginal life in the New World, and in our own county, and they describe it in tiese words: "As we approaohed the land, we oould discover net only the woods, hills, dales, grcenfields and plantations, but also tho houses and dwellings of the inhabitants, a 'cheerful and pleasant prospect after having been long at sea. When we entered the Narrows, we saw some Indians on the beach launching a canoe, and others running down the bank. We tacked ship and ran close to the shore, and called out to them to come on board, whioh they did.

We regarded them with astonishment. They are dull of comprehension, and slow and calm of speech, but stout of body. Their skin is reddish. The only garment they wear, is a piece of daffels wrapped round their bodylikoa blanket. Their hair hangs strait down in strings well greased, and sometimes twisted in with beads.

They are very proud of this. They have thick lips and noses but not like the negroes, heavy eyebrows, brown eyebrows, black or brown eyes, thick tongue and black hair. After amusing themselves awhile in looking around the ship and climbing here and there, they were treated to some brandy and biscuit, when they left us and went ashore in their canoe. A breeze springing up at this time, and the bay widening go as to give the ship more room, we shot ahead. As soon aa you pass the Narrows, you begin to see the city whioh presents a beau tifnl eight.

The fort placed on the pjint between the two nversis a little higher than the other buildings. When they sea a ship coming up bay they raise the national standard on the flagstaff. The colors of the King of England were now flying. We came to anchor abreast the city about three o'clbpk in the afternoon, when our vessel was ssan overrun with people who came from the shore in all kinds of boats', eaoh one inquiring after his friends or looking after his profit. There were no Custom house officers.

We landed in oompany with Gerrit, who took us to the house of Jacob Swart, hiB father in law. "The travellers were now HEW JOBK. Tho city which presented such a beautiful sight (is they approached it was then only a small town. The whole population did not exceed thirty five hundred, soils, and lived between the battery and a stookade formed for protection against the Indiana Ton a line where the present Wall street how ironsl SlBnrjjri bouies were supplied with gardens, filled with trees of choice fruit which was at that rime maturing, apples, pears and peaches. The church for there was but one stood within the fort, where the Dutoh and English both worshipped, the Dutch minister preaching in the morning jand altemqon and the Chaplain of the fort performing the English service between these preachings.

The city and province were under the government of the Duke of York; but in other respects little change had been effected in the original character. Everything was essentially Dutoh. We eanhot stop on. tho: prevent occasion to dwell upon 'what the travellers saw' and observed in New York, but we cannot forbear giving ah extract from their account of TBETfl VISIT "TO TBH OHTOOH there th'eTaajr 'after tftek 'arrival "As it was ttteV'sav. "we went to church both in' order all occasion of scandal and for other reasons.

lt was inside the fort and we found flwroAulyfl wild world; lit? not pnly because the people were wild, as we term it in Europe, but because' almost all who immigrate this country or, are bom there partake somewhat of the wild (pr Indians) as they ore the owners of the land on which i tho al'ovo mailer, will moot at tha ofliaa of th Atn ry and ConnsrJfor of tha Ci'y of Bnnfc'm tim City Hihot said oitj. on LrUv. tbo or nebimry. ifffi ni, 'J itVlockin thn fiftcriinnf. ti hoir tha nro tsutid alloga 'onsof 'l par ies lniorot.nl; and will notiiimto to meet by adjournment fiotu timo to time, as mtj be Jen mod ritccs'tiry and At thy lim? anil idaoe above specitiod.

Title Dood? and otbermfdoni'pof Titleabould bo pxoduoi(L DatoJ Hrook hm.Feh Sin. 1BPG. (iftt.UuK THOMPSON. JOHN A BU Y. JCoin'nisiioupra.

Te8M MAURICE FITZGKH ll.D. TOTTCB" 01fdKD)NAN0Ifl TO" DIRECT i Itita to bo Filled. riotico is hereby given to all pnrtios interested of tha intention of Hie Common Council of this oity to pass an Or duiauco to direst lot Oo block hounded by Marry and Lee avfnuo1, RutUdge and Hoy wood i ts; Ana on block bout ded hr tt itledfio strcof, Koit. R'idford and H'nsbiuT avs. to bo n'led to abnto a nuitaiice.

Datd Brooklyn, thruury 6tb. letis. J. OAKLKY NODYNB, e8 IM Htroot Commi'SionQr. OF1 TCE OF TRW STU mT UOiUAUHHrON hit.

No. 0 City Hall J'ltOPOSALS FOR RlS MOVING OFPaU Bealnd Proposals will bo rcceivod by the Dominon Gounod, it the Aipyor'e oflice. unf.il Monday. Fob 19th. 18G8 at 3 o'cloib P.

forrciroviurroir fiom tho Ci.yof Urooktlyn, agrtBfbIe to the 'oliowing hl'RCtFICATlOH FOB IfJCUOVIMa Of HAL FROM THE OtTT OF BBOOKLYH FOB IHE YEAB 18GJ. It sbiill duty ot tho cur. tractor to rov'di thrno bu able doiis in the City wf Brooklyn, two in the We.tero Diitrict aud one in the 1 aalern iHfi'nct of stid citr wlme all dean animsls. huobrrs' offi and garhago miy be earned, wheihei brought by iho cans or tho ooDtra tor or other rsons; tht thoy wit' auhoatid docks, atoll timts, luvotui'able boats crvopseli, at their orn cxneuio, in wbich ibuy ivill icceive thn said doad annuals. Dutch era' cflaUrid garbage, and without delay rsmovn and trampo't tho tftfiie to aomo suttablf place not lss distant than fifteen miles by watercarriage from th City of ftroofchn; and tba'.

thr said contractor or cotnetorj tiHat all tims mderonif) and rave iarnjliss the City of Brooklyn or nn I irom ellsuits. actior s. claims comands, damaKej, ofuta and chart. cs for and by reason of tbo recoo tion. rouiovji or transportation nf the dead ai.imsls, offal and sarbage aforesaid.

And ifcahill bo neoessary for the oantiajtor or contrao'ojs. at all tiaoa and in all tojdb ots, tocoiiformto aid comply with oil ordinances or rogalatioGS wMolt the Couraon Conocil or Board or Uealtb of tbe City o( Brc oblj vba'1 make or pass in retold te rucu removal or transportation aforesaid as ia heir judgment shall bo Poces. ar aod prooer for tbe proiora non tf tbo nubic bealthofihe said aad iU inbabi tanta; and that tbey will at their own expense turnish carls or other vehicles, aod remote from the stroeis lanes, avenue or lots thereto of tho City, tbo bodies of all animals found whioh iv hsve died by accidfnt'r dieeaso, and that until tbe reuovil or transportation of said dead animals, butchers' offal aad ear bage a'oreaaid for the doo a aforopa'd thry atthetr on tzpense, with suitable disinfectant mttoiials, eom pJete' aisinfect and deodoris all ncb arttWes, rsusk carts or o'her yebiclos and docks, so that the same shall not emit any noxious, offensive or unhealthy odor and that they willimnish said docks, carts, or other yehiole. and remove and transport the articles aforesaid, and in all otter portoim the laid work from tbe date of the contract to tbe 1st day of January, Tbo Common Council and Board of Health will, during: tbe contiDuaoe of tbe contract, pass all such ofdinnees andiegulatious astdsy lawfully can to prohibit ibe removal of nil bead animals, but on era' offal ajd girbiga. except by tbe persons licensed by the Mayor of thecitrto remove eaoh article, to the docks afoiesnd, aud to proUot the aaid parties of the second part tho due performance of their engagement! under the said contract.

Payment for the same to be mado in moothfv iastafmentf upun tbe certificate of the proier officers that the work bus bee, performed aceordlMg to the speoidcatiotis, lavs thirty per to be reserved by tbe oity until the expiration the toimof said Ann farther, it shall be tho duty of tbe contractor aforesaid to piovide all necQsaarv uossengers, workmen and ageefs to enable them to perform the terms of said contract with promptness. And thoy shall send a message to tho office ol tbe Mayor Suptrintonde it of Police, and each Fiecinct Prlice Static home once every day, aiiucb. hours as the Msyor may designate, eicopt during the months of Jure. July. August and Bentemoec when they shall at nd a messenger aforesaid twice in earn day for tbo purpose of receiving all notices for tho removal of dead and ill otbor notice and ill cnmnlaunt runnnt.

ing the non perfonnanco of their part of this contract, and VIM If Uioj Kill, uyvu iCVCTlU) BUVU UU KO. aUUl animals, and attend to said complaint, within six hoon irom the time aforMaic. A nd tbey will also provide one ofSoe in tbo We item Dis tnct and one in tbe Kaitero Distriot, whoreall saoh notiooi and complaints may be sent Ana furtuer.iB eve the ia'd oon'raoori shall make de fault in tbo performance of soy of the provision! of their Contract, i eball bolawful tn the Major and proper Dicers oi laid Oity. to cauie tbo seifonaanoe thereof other persons at the orpeoiebf said alio a oa a of inch deftult, it shall be lawful for the Common Omoit efiaJdCity, aitor eve to tbe said eon tractors, so nnl tbo contract, aad thenceftrth ill tne poviaiona tstsro of shall bo void and no longer hinding upon this Ojumon eouatlb Blanks foi estimating furnished at theoSee of tha Stria Oornmissioner.aodnoaeotherwillbeconsidered. Proposals will not bo considered unless aocomnanled wrta 1 consent in wriUng ol.

two sureties of doable the amount oi ui proposals oa eaco uropvw'i biuui uuaiiil to uieir ronuuiiniuuikj tbe contract be awarded to tbe party proposing, tbey wtl oome bound aa hia surety forite faithful performance; tlinv will anu in oa he shall neglect orrefnse to execn ran awarded, thenthalthey will payto the City of Brooklyn the diffcrenTe between ths price 1 next faighcfltbidder. to whom theoontract may be Mrudad. PreiS to be endorsed. tht figf Ooumcil toneoilyiDg the worK. Hrooklyn.

Feb. 6. 1803. MM. f)R OK AW OBDBB OPBtB.

uxor df to la b) all mtim SVSSa aSinit 'ANB HIXU0U3B. Ul, bf tbt rtfBEBUI ASP QVAJVxm raaoaaa, an Kitn apart from tho rest, with her little gardon; ami with otner necessaries wnu wnicn moy proviueu her." Although the name of tills old woman is not given, we arc not at a loss to idontify her. It was C'alalina Trico, the widow of Jitis Janson Bapeljc. She might almost bo called the motacr of New York, not from her numerous descendants, but because she came over in tho first Yee eel which brought permanent settlers to these shores, tho "Union" (Eendraght) signillcant namewhich bears tho sumo relation to New York that the Mayflower does to New England tho forefather's ship; and particularly because she was tho mother of the first child horn of those settlers In this State, She had como hero from her native land to Increase and multiply, and now, with that mission fulfilled, she was repOBing in contentment, with habits of out door labor and industry, which the life of a pioneer hod begotten, Btill active, aud which our travellers call worldly, but which a less rigid, but not Icbs pure religion would admire rather than condemn for its example to her children and her children's children. Andhero we draw the curtain over those early scenes and settlers of Kings County.

They havo passed before ns now like the shifting views and figures of a moving panorama too abort and transitory In thoir appearance to satisfy us, We have looked, though for a moment, upon tho founders of families which now embraca thousands of persons in this and other States. Wo have caught glimpses of their rude homes and occupations. Wo have seen the ipot upon which wo stand almost in its primeval state. If any one, however, would wish to look further, to see the verv house in whicn 8imon De Hart lived. where our traveller supped so bountifully on we game oi tne connty, anu wnero me squaws fled with their children for protection from tho dreadful effects of the firewater with whioh christians hfdebauchethelr husbands, he may see it still standing on Gowanus cove, at tho foot ef 38th street, somewhat changed perhaps by repairs and additions since it was first built, but with its thick rough stone walls still standing, which, could they speak, would confirm these memories.

And let him recollect that this house wasJbuilt twenty years certainly, and nearly forty years probably, belero the old Oortelyon house at Washington pond. The same strand on which the Indians erected their temporary huts in front of It, to engage in their frolic, is Still washod by the same waters. But house and beach will s'odn' disappear. Decay has seized the timbers of the former, and the arms of oommorc are already extended to embrace tho Bhorc, so that in a brief time bulkheads and basinB will have obliterated all vestigea of this history of the past. Still, when these shall have disappeared, story will remain to confirm the truth that1 our city aud state, owe their origin to oommorclal and economies! causes, and not to those of ajjojitical or.

religious character. Tho Dutch and WsHoons who'began the settlements, came here to' better their condition in life. Political. and ralirious liberty thev entoved iu Fatherland; at least thev. uompiiunuu.

uob ui rmirxvuoua 111: eiuiar But tney naa to contena mere witn natural aim cnlties, a scanty soil nd a limited territory. Perilous and precarious employments on the sea constituted the principal sources of relief to a poor Theland there, moreover 'was, as it, in a great measure, still is, appropriated to a few nonrletors. reducing tho ereat tioflv of curtlvators of the earth to the condition of Boon Vnd dependants. The Drains of commerce and irauc vriw kib nuiives, sua ienimyoi lite HIUW UITJIGIL UUQ1U W. BUU1CO.

VT UBFO bUBJ becanifthe.owiiere of tho land which they tilted, ewh one himself TaerbrouEhtwith them hablU of industryand capability of pndur anceoi uarumip anu pnianpn. xuey cams to a wilderness It is true, put with such habits they made it to blossom' left Mfr u4 riMtoVfrtin at AS. VoV UB.

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