The chief Town of this Province is call’d _Gorgiana_, which is Govern’d by a Mayor, the rest are onely inconsiderable Villages or scatter’d Houses; but through Encouragement given to Adventurers and Planters, it may prove in time a very flourishing Place, and be replenish’d with many fair Towns and Cities, it being a Province both fruitful and pleasant. SECT. II. New Netherland, now call’d New York. That Tract of Land formerly call’d _The New Netherland_, doth contain all that Land which lieth in the North parts of _America_, betwixt _New England_ and _Mary-Land_; the length of which Northward into the Countrey, as it hath not been fully discover’d, so it is not certainly known: The breadth of it is about two hundred Miles. The principal Rivers within this Tract, are _Hudson_’s-River, _Raritan_-River, _Delaware-Bay_-River. The chief Islands are the _Manhatans_-Island, _Long_-Island, and _Staten_-Island. The first which discover’d this Countrey was _Henry Hudson_, who being hir’d by the _East-India_ Company to seek a Passage in the _Northern America_ to _China_, set Sail _Anno 1609._ in the _Half-Moon_ Frigat; coming before _Terre-neuff_, he stood about towards the South-West, where Sailing up a great River, he found two Men Clad in _Ruffelo_’s Skins; and from thence arriv’d safe at _Amsterdam_. _New Netherland_ thus discover’d, invited many Merchants to settle a firm Plantation there; to which purpose they obtain’d Letters Patents in 1614. granted them by the _States_ in the _Hague_, That they might onely Traffick to _New Netherland_; whereupon they earnestly prosecuting the Design, sent out _Adrian Block_ and _Godyn_, who discover’d several Coasts, Isles, Havens, and Rivers.