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.

BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

W.HUGHES &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE;

RODWELL AND MARTIN, BOND STREET: ALSO, R. GRIFFIN AND CO, GLASGOW.

1824.

P

6378&

C. Whittingham, College House, Chiswick.

CONTAINING DIVERS INGENIOUS THEORIES AND PHILOSO-

PHIC SPECULATIONS 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 Matter

as common Folks would imagine.........................

...

CHAP. III.-How far 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 thereby, and

the Discovery of America.......

CHAP. IV. Showing the great Difficulty Philosophers

have had in peopling America—and how the Aborigines

came to be begotten by Accident, to the great Relief

and Satisfaction of the Author.........