[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] place of rendezvous, as the General Court indicates, on condition of the latter providing their pay, rations and ammunition. The foregoing are the burthens which New England has, to my own knowledge, to defray. Ady, 2'' March. Information respecting Land in New Netlierland. [ From the Original la the Koyal Archives £ Information relative to taking upland in New Netherland, in the form of Colonies or private bouweries. Delivered in by Secretary van Tienhoven, on the 4"' of March, 1050. If any one be disposed to begin either by himself or others. Colonies, Bouweries or Plantations in New Netherland, which lies in the latitude of one and forty degrees and a half, he shall first have to inform himself fully of the situation of the lands lying on the rivers, havens and bays, in order thus to select the most suitable, and particularly the most convenient grounds: It is therefore to be borne in mind, that the lands in New Netherland are not all level and flat, and adapted to raising of grain, inasmuch as they are, with the exception of some few flats, generally covered with timber, in divers places also with large and small stones. In order, then first to describe those lands which are actually the most convenient and the best and ought to be occupied the earliest, where and how located, I shall enumerate the following places, and commend the remainder to the consideration of proprietors of this country.