New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
CHAP. I.—Description of the World 35 CHAP. II.—Cosmogony, or Creation of the World; with a multitude of excellent theories, by which the creation of a world is shown to be no such difficult matter as common folk would imagine 46 CHAP. III.—How that famous navigator, Noah, was...
CHAP. I.—Description of the World 35 CHAP. II.—Cosmogony, or Creation of the World; with a multitude of excellent theories, by which the creation of a world is shown to be no su...
2. BOOK II.CHAP. I.—In which are contained divers reasons why a man should not write in a hurry; also, of Master Hendrick Hudson, his discovery of a strange country,—and how he was magnifi...
3. BOOK III.CHAP. I.—Of the renowned Wouter Van Twiller, his unparalleled virtues—as likewise his unutterable wisdom in the law-case of Wandle Schoonhoven and Barent Bleecker—and the great...
4. BOOK IV.CHAP. I.—Showing the nature of history in general;—containing furthermore the universal acquirements of William the Testy, and how a man may learn so much as to render himself g...
5. Book i., ch. 5.True it is—and I am not ignorant of the fact—that in a certain apocryphal book of voyages, compiled by one Hakluyt, is to be found a letter written to Francis the First, by one...