[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] lished in England, with the title, " A Description of New Albion," by one Beauchamp Plantagenet, Esq., which assumed to narrate that in the year 1613 the English Captain Samuel Argall, returning from Acadia to Virginia, "landed at Manhattan Isle, in Hudson's River, where they found four houses built, and a pretended Dutch governor under the West India Company of Amsterdam," and that this Dutch population and this Dutch ruler were forced to submit to the tre-mendous power of Great Britain. The whole story is a sheer fabrica-tion, and so crude as to be almost vulgar. Yet such is the continuing strength of old pseudo-historical statement that we still find in com-pendious historical reference works of generally authentic character mention of Argall's apocryphal feat of arms — the " first conquest of New Netherland by the English," — usually accompanied, albeit, by the discreet "(?)" conscientiously employed by such faithful com-pilers in cases of incertitude. In 1619 occurred the first known visit of an English vessel to the waters of Westchester County and Manhattan Island, which merits passing notice here for an interesting incident attaching to it. Captain Thomas Dermer, sent by Sir Ferdinand Gorges, of the Plymouth Com-pany, to the Island of Monhegan on the coast of Maine, partly to pro-cure a cargo of fish and partly to return the unfortunate Indian slave Squanto to his home, came sailing through Long Island Sound in his-