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able to ascertain contains the latest and best information of the 

 time; it is certainly more accurate than a large number of maps 

 that have followed it, and is worthy of more study than it has 

 received. 



No. 2. A Part of the " Carte Figurative " Found in the 

 Royal Library at the Hague Annexed to the Memorial 

 Presented to the States General on the i8th of 

 August, 1616. By the Directors of New Netherland. 



This map is referred to in the memorial as showing the ex- 

 tent of the discoveries made by Cornells Hendricxsen in a small 

 yacht named the " Onrust " (The Restless) built in the New 

 Netherlands. 



Adrian Block was the first known European to pass through 

 the East River. He arrived in 1613, his vessel was burned, and 

 he spent the fall and winter of that year in building the " On- 

 rust " a vessel of about 16 tons and 44% f ee t long. Block sailed 

 through Hellegat into the Great Bay (Long Island Sound) and 

 explored all the region thereabouts. He left his yacht and re- 

 turned home. Captain Hendricxsen in this same yacht made 

 further explorations. Brodhead says in regard to this map that 

 it was probably prepared under Block's immediate supervision, 

 and from data that he furnished immediately upon his return 

 to Holland in 161 4, and that it was probably exhibited to the 

 States General for the first time in October 11, 1614. The 

 charter granted on that day to the Directors of New Netherland, 

 expressly refers to a " Figurative Map prepared by them " which 

 described the seacoasts between the 40th and 45th degrees of 

 latitude, which this map does. It moreover shows New Nether- 

 land as lying between New France and Virginia according to 

 the description in the charter. The map was produced probably 

 for the second time on August 18, 1616, when the memorial 

 was presented to which it was found attached. 



