[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] It seemed at first as if the Company did intend to settle this place with its own Mrvanta *^gwr"th8 servauts, which must be a great mistake; for so soon as their time was up, they couotrjabadnarae. j.gjy^j,g(j ^ome Carrying with them nothing except a trifle in their purse and, for the country, the bad reputation of great hunger, &c. Meanwhile there was no profit but heavy monthly bills, as the accounts from New Netherland will testify. Had the Hon'''^ West India Company attended in the beginning to population, instead of incurring great expense for things unnecessary, which might be attended to at more favorable times and then could also be better done, the New Netherland account would not be so large as it is now; first, by the construction of the ship Nieuw Neerlant, at an excessive expense; of three costly mills, by making brick, burning tar, manufacturing ashes, salt, and similar undertakings, which through bad management and calculation, came wholly too little or nothing, notwithstanding the excessive expenditure. Had this been (26) applied to colonizing the country, and transporting cattle, the place might now be of considerable importance. New Netherland is 'phis countrv and its position are much better and more convenient much belter and.* ^ SauNewEDsianSl than that occupied by the English, and had not self interest and private speculation been attended to, assuredly, the North or New England would not have outstripped us so much.