The lands were ultimately included in the Hardenberg Patent, and most of the Indian descendants of its founders of 1744 followed the lead of Brant in the Revolution. They probably deserved a better fate than that which came to tliem. They are gone. The long night with its starless robe has enveloped them in its folds -- the ceaseless wash of the waters of the Delaware upon the beautiful valley of Cochecton, hynms their requiem.

Here we close our survey of the only monuments which remain of races which for ages hunted the deer, chanted songs of love, and raised fierce war cries -- ^the names which they gave and which remain of record of the hills and valleys, the lakes and waterfalls,

^ A beltthe it neither wasrecords presented by the Indians or tradition relates. to Col. De Kay, but what became of

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amid which they had their abiding places. Wonderfully sugg^estive and full of inferential deductions are those monuments ; volumes of history and romance are linked with them ; the most controlling influences in making our nation what it is is graven in their crude orthographies. Their further reclamation and restoration to the geographical locations to which they belonged is a duty devolving on coming generations.

THE DUTCH RACKS OF 1625-6. [_FYom De Laet's "New World," Leyden Edition.]

" Within the first reach, where the land is low, there dwells a nation of savages named Tappaans. * * The second reach extends upward to a narrow pass named by our people Haverstroo; then comes Seyl-maker's (Zeil-maker's, sail-maker's) reach, as they call it ; and next, a crooked reach, in the form of a crescent, called Koch's reach (Cook's reach). Next is Hooge-rack (High reach); and then follows Vossen reach (Foxes reach), which extends to Klinckersberg (Stone mountain).