MAWhile [ Irving, Washington]. 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 Achievments of PETER THE HEADSTRONG, the three Dutch Governors of New AMSTERDAM; being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or ever will be Published. BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER, De waarheid die in duißter lag, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK; BRADFORD & INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA; WM. M'ILHENNEY, BOSTON; COALE & THOMAS, BALTIMORE; AND MORFORD, WILLINGTON, & Co. CHARLESTON. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE CONTAINING Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER, →«Á De waarheid die in duifker lag, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK; ............ OF NEW YORK, &c. BOOK V. Containing the first part of the reign of Peter Stuyvesant and his troubles with the Amphyctionic Council. CHAP. I. In which the death of a great man is shewn to be no such inconsolable matter of sorrow-and how Peter Stuyvesant acquired a great name from -the uncommon strength of his head. To a profour philosopher, like myself, who am apt to see clear through a subject, where the penetration of ordinary people extends but half way, there is no fact more simple and manifest, than that the death of a great man, is a matter of |