A brief description of New-York, formerly called New-Netherlands with the places thereunto adjoyning : together with the manner of its scituation, fertility of the soyle, healthfulness of the climate, and the commodities thence produced : also some directions and advice to such as shall go thither ... : likewise a brief relation of the customs of the Indians there / by Daniel Denton.
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- A brief description of New-York, formerly called New-Netherlands with the places thereunto adjoyning : together with the manner of its scituation, fertility of the soyle, healthfulness of the climate, and the commodities thence produced : also some directions and advice to such as shall go thither ... : likewise a brief relation of the customs of the Indians there / by Daniel Denton.
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- Denton, Daniel.
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- London :: Printed for John Hancock ... and William Bradley ...,
- 1670.
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"A brief description of New-York, formerly called New-Netherlands with the places thereunto adjoyning : together with the manner of its scituation, fertility of the soyle, healthfulness of the climate, and the commodities thence produced : also some directions and advice to such as shall go thither ... : likewise a brief relation of the customs of the Indians there / by Daniel Denton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35692.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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TO THE Reader.
Reader,
I Have here thorough the In∣stigation of divers Persons in England, and elsewhere, pre∣sented you wi••h a Brief but true Relation of a known unknown part of America. The known part which is either inhabited, or lieth near the Sea, I have described to you, and have writ nothing, but what I have been an eye∣witness to all or the greatest part of it: Neither can I safely say, was I willing to exceed, but was rather willing the place it self should exceed my Com∣mendation, which I question not but will be owned by those that shall travel
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thither: For the unknown part, which is either some places lying to the Northward yet undiscovered by any English, or the Bowels of the earth not yet opened, though the Natives tell us of Glittering Stones, Diamonds, or Pearl in the one, and the Dutch hath boasted of Gold and Silver in the o∣ther; yet I shall not feed your expecta∣tion with any thing of that nature; but leave it till a better discovery shall make way for such a Relation. In the mean time accept of this from him who desi∣reth to deal impartially with every one,
DANIEL DENTON.