Betwixt this and _Long-Island_ is a large Bay, which is the coming in for all Ships and Vessels out of the Sea. On the North-side of this Island _After-skull_ River puts into the Main Land, on the West-side whereof there are two or three Towns, but on the East-side but one. There are very great Marshes or Meadows on both sides of it, excellent good Land, and good convenience for the setling of several Towns. There grows black Walnut and Locust, as there doth in _Virginia_, with mighty, tall, streight Timber, as good as any in the North of _America_: It produceth any Commodity which _Long-Island_ doth. _Hudson_’s River runs by _New York_ Northward into the Countrey, towards the Head of which is seated _New Albany_, a Place of great Trade with the _Indians_, betwixt which and _New York_, being above a hundred Miles, is as good Corn-Land as the World affords, enough to entertain hundreds of Families, which in the time of the _Dutch_ Government of these Parts could not be setled by reason of the _Indians_, excepting one Place, call’d _The Sopers_, which was kept by a Garrison, but since the Reducement of these Parts under His Majesties Obedience, and a Patent granted to his Royal Highness the Duke of _York_, which is about six years, by the care and diligence of the Honorable Collonel _Nichols_, sent thither as Deputy to his Highness, such a League of Peace was made, and Friendship concluded betwixt that Colony and the _Indians_, that they have not resisted or disturb’d any _Christians_ there, in the setling or peaceable possessing of any Lands within that Government, but every Man hath sat under his own Vine, and hath peaceably reap’d and enjoy’d the Fruits of their own Labors, which God continue. [Sidenote: _Raritan-River._] Westward of _After-skull_ River before mention’d, about eighteen or twenty Miles, runs in _Raritan_ River Northward into the Countrey some scores of Miles; both sides of which River are adorn’d with spacious Meadows, enough to feed thousands of Cattel: The Wood-Land is very good for Corn, and stor’d with wild Beasts, as Deer, Elks, and an innumerable multitude of Fowl, as in other parts of the Countrey. This River is thought very capable for the erecting of several Towns and Villages on each side of it, no place in the North of _America_ having better convenience for the maintaining of all sorts of Cattel for Winter and Summer Food.