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HISTORY OF NEW YORK,

FROM THE

BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE END OF
THE DUTCH DYNASTY;

CONTAINING, AMONG MANY SURPRISING AND CURIOUS MATTERS, THE UNUTTERABLE
PONDERINGS OF WALTER THE DOUBTER, THE DISASTROUS PROJECTS OF WILLIAM
THE TESTY, AND THE CHIVALRIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF PETER THE HEADSTRONG-
THE THREE DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW AMSTERDAM: BEING THE ONLY AUTHEN-
TIC HISTORY OF THE TIMES THAT EVER HATI BEEN OR EVER WILL BE PUBLISHED.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by

WASHINGTON IRVING,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

JOHN F. TROW,

PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER, 377 and 379 Broadway,

Cor. White Street, New York.