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the Watering Place. The location of DeVries’ plantation in the 
vicinity of the Watering Place would also be indicated by the 
Indian version of the stealing of the hogs, as well as from the fact 
that shipping stopped there, that it was most accessible to New 
Amsterdam where DeVries probably lived, and that the land to the 
south was tolerably level, fertile, and well watered, suitable for 
raising tobacco or maize. In other words, it is such a site as a 
shrewd man like DeVries would select for his colony. 
The.early maps of Staten Island gave few local names, and 
this 1639 map is one of the first if not the earliest to bear the 
name Staten Island. Perhaps it is the only Dutch map in existence 
made previous to the English conquest to show any plantation, 
colonies, or towns on Staten Island. The Dutch cartographers 
were content to show topographical features and the name of the 
island. The names usually appearing are Hamels Hoofden,*® and 
often Hoofden [Headlands] is applied to the bluffs on each side 
of the Narrows, or sometimes the Staten Island side is called we/t 
houck" and the Long Island side oofte houck. R. Achter Kol 
also appears on maps as early as 1621. Staten Lant and 1. State 
appear on maps probably earlier than 1639, but the island to which 
these names refer is not recognizable. 
The copy of the Manatus map of 1639 in the Library of Con- 
egress, of great importance in the early history of New York City, 
depicts the state of affairs in 1639 as we find from the reference 
to numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.7. Another copy of the map has been 
found in the villa Costello near Florence, which is owned by the 
Italian government. It is made on the same kind of paper and 
with only such differences from the other copy as may be attributed 
to errors in copying. 
A thorough investigation indicates that both maps were copied 
in Holland between 1660 and 1670 from the original, now lost, 
10 The Narrows. Named after Hendrik Hamel, a patroon. 
11 houck, cape. 
12 “ Rive run down bouweries of the Company, which stand idle, whereof 
now A° 1639, three are again occupied.” 
