The document which follows was found by Broadhead in the Royal Library of the Hague. It is still there and is designated No. 78 H 32. I has an outside cover forming a title-page, with ornamental lettering, but it is not the "book ornamented with water-color drawings" which Kieft is known to have sent home. A photograph of the first page, which the editor has procured, does nothing to show the authorship, for it is written in the hand of a professional scrivener. Mr. Van Laer, archivist of the State of New York, assures the editor that it is not the hand of Keift or that of Cornelis van Tienhoven, the provincial secretary.<1> But that it was either inspired by Kieft, or emanated from one of his supporters, is plain not only from its general tone but from its citations of documents. Of the documents to which its marginal notes refer, some of those that we can still trace are noted in the archives of the Netherlands as "from a copy-book of Director Kieft's." The rest, or the original copy-book, may have perished with him. <1> Mr. J.H. Innes tells me that it resembles that of Augustin Herrman. The piece was first printed in 1851, in the _Documentary History of the State of New York_, IV. 1-17. It was printed for the second time in 1856, in _Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York_, I. 179-188. For the present issue this early and imperfect translation has been revised with great care by Dr. Johannes de Hullu of the National Archives of the Netherlands, who has used for this purpose the original manuscript in the Royal Library. JOURNAL OF NEW NETHERLAND, 1647 Journal of New Netherland, 1647, described in the Years 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645 and 1646. Brief Description of New Netherland.