Quum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, Mutuum ac turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter, Unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque ita porro Pugnabant armis, quæ post fabricaverat usus. Hor., _Sat._, L. i., S. 3. Footnote 8: Hazard’s _State Papers_. Footnote 9: New Plymouth record. Footnote 10: Mather’s _Hist. New Eng._ B. 6, ch. 7. Footnote 11: Ballad of “Dragon of Wantley.” Footnote 12: Acrelius’ _History N. Sweden_. For some notice of this miraculous discomfiture of the Swedes, see _N. Y. His. Col._, new series, Vol. I., p. 412. Footnote 13: “... as soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua vitæ.” “Dragon of Wantley.” Footnote 14: The learned Hans Megapolensis, treating of the country about Albany, in a letter which was written some time after the settlement, says: “There is in the river great plenty of sturgeon, which we Christians do not make use of, but the Indians eat them greedily.” Footnote 15: This was likewise the great seal of the New Netherlands, as may still be seen in ancient records. Footnote 16: Besides what is related in the Stuyvesant MS., I have found mention made of this illustrious patroon in another manuscript, which says: “De Heer (or the squire) Michael Paw, a Dutch subject, about 10th Aug. 1630, by deed purchased Staten Island. N. B. The same Michael Paw had what the Dutch call a colonie at Pavonia, on the Jersey shore, opposite New York, and his overseer in 1636 was named Corns. Van Vorst; a person of the same name in 1769 owned Pawles Hook and a large farm at Pavonia, and is a lineal descendant from Van Vorst.” Footnote 17: So called from the Navesink tribe of Indians that inhabited these parts. At present they are erroneously denominated the Neversink, or Neversunk mountains. Footnote 18: Since corrupted into the _Wallabout_; the bay where the Navy Yard is situated. Footnote 19: Now spelt Brooklyn. Footnote 20: At present a flourishing town, called Christiana, or Christeen, about thirty-seven miles from Philadelphia, on the post-road to Baltimore. Footnote 21: This castle, though very much altered and modernized, is still in being, and stands at the corner of Pearl Street, facing Coentie’s slip. Footnote 22: Hariot’s _Journal_, Purch. Pilgrims. Footnote 23: This Luyck was moreover rector of the Latin School in Nieuw Nederlandts, 1663. There are two pieces addressed to Ægidius Luyck in D. Selyn’s MSS. of poesies, upon his marriage with Judith Isendoorn. Old MS. [Illustration: Endpaper] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES