[129]Blommaert was a merchant in Amsterdam and a director of the West India Company, 1622-29, 1636-42. [130]The official name of the Hudson River for several years (named after Maurice, Prince of Orange). “Mauritse” in the original. [131]Sandy Hook. [J. F. J.] [132]Sandy Hook Bay. [J. F. J.] [133]The Narrows, between Staten Island and Brooklyn. [134]Long Island. [135]Montauk Point. [136]Wampum. [137]The Siwanoys lived north of Long Island Sound, from the Bronx to Norwalk, Conn.; the Shinnecocks inhabited the east end of Long Island. “Souwenos,” in the original, is a name applied promiscuously by early Dutch cartographers. [138]No doubt in the missing portion; the Pequots are apparently meant. [J. F. J.] The Pequots lived to the west of Narragansett Bay, in the eastern part of Connecticut. [139]Probably the Kill van Kull and the Passaic or Hackensack River was thought to connect with the Wallkill River and Rondout Creek. [140]Delaware River. [141]In Holland. [J. F. J.] [142]A morgen is about two acres. [J. F. J.] [143]East River. The West India Company’s six farms lay east of the present Bowery, and extended from a fresh-water swamp occupying the site of the present Roosevelt and James Streets northward to Eighteenth or Twentieth Street. [J. F. J.] [144]Governor’s Island. [145]I.e., both Fort Amsterdam and the little island itself. Blommaert’s Vly was a low, damp depression running northeast and southwest about on the line of the present Broad Street. [J. F. J.] [146]This name applies more properly to one of the Indian dialects spoken in the vicinity of Manhattan. J. G. Wilson (ed.), _The Memorial History of the City of New York_ (1892), I, 49. [147]The fish. [J. F. J.] [148]Blackstone River, Upper Narragansett Bay, and Sakonnet River. [149]The short cut across the base of Cape Cod, now taken by ships through the Cape Cod Canal, was used by the Plymouth settlers and the Indians, who went up Scusset creek on the north side and down the Manomet River on the southwest. The site of the trading post built on the Manomet, near Buzzard’s Bay, has been excavated and the house restored. It is in the town of Bourne and can be reached as follows: “after crossing the Bourne Bridge over the Canal [heading toward Cape Cod], turn sharp right; next, bear left at a fork and follow Shore Road to signs indicating the Post; turn right under the railroad bridge and follow a dirt road through woods to the Post.” Morison, _Story of the “Old Colony” of New Plymouth_, 131n. [150]Narragansett Bay. [151]Cape Cod, especially Monomoy Point. [152]In New Netherland and western New England, especially the Connecticut valley.