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Excerpt from A Brief Description of New York, Formerly Called New Netherlands, With the Places Thereunto Adjoining: Together With the Manner of Its Scituation, Fertility of the Soyl, Healthfulness of the Climate, and the Commodities Thence Produced
Note. Daniel Denton's Brief Description of New York, formerly New Netherlands, is the first English account of the country now divided into New York and New Jersey, and was evidently drawn up before that division was made, or at least promulgated.
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