[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Beschreven door ADRIAEN" Tander DONCK Beyder Rtcliten Doetoor, die tesjenwoor-| digh noch in Nieuw Nederlandt is. t'AMSTELDAM. Bj Evert Nieuwhof, Botcfe-ijtrltooptr, ixioontnilt op 't ilusIanJlt iit't Scf)ri|'fio«fe Anno 16.5fi. Description of New Nttlierland { such as it vow is ), Compreheitding the Nature, Character, Situation and Fmitfulness of that Country; together with the profiUible and desirable opportunities which it offers for the support of people { whether natives or foreigners ) Also the Maimers and peculiar characteristics of the Indians or aborigines of the Country. And n particular account of the wonderfid nature and habits of the Beaver; to which is also added a Discourse on the situation of New Netherland, between a Netherlands Patriot and a New Netherlander. Written by Adriaen van der Doocli, Doctor of Laws, who is still in New Netherland.) 4to. Title, viii a. 104 pages. A second edition of tliis Tohime was published in ]65fi, with a map, and a transl.ation of it, by General Jeremiah Johnson, printed in the Collections of the New-York Historical Society. Adriaen van der Donck died in this country in 16.35, and left his Colonie, in Westchester, to his wife. This lady, whom he married in 1645, was the daughter of the Reverend Francis Doughty, of Long Island. She afterwards married Hugh O'Neal, of Patuxent, Maryland, whither she and her father removed. Copies of Van der Denck's works are in the State Library, Albany. — Ed. 534 NEW-YORK COLONIAL >IANIJSCEIPTS.