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the carpet to her piano. We are improved in manners— true, and so far to our credit; but is there more of order among us, each one knowing his place ? more of deference to superiors; and superiors more regardful of station ? more of love of country, and less of profession of it 1 more of courage, and less vaunt of it ? more of the spirit of freemen, and so more of disdain of unworthy submission to the will of another f more solicitous for estimation, and so more so* lieitous to merit it ? more of truth, its modes, candor, sincerity, fidelity? Inquire of the Nestors who have lived both ages.
To the largest of the Elizabeth Islands, Block gave the name of the Texel, to Nantucket the name of Vlielandt. Extract from the voyage of Hudson as found in De Laet. " They made the land again in 41 deg. 43 minutes of north latitude, and supposed it to be an island, and gave it the name of Nieuwe Hollandt, New Holland, but afterwards found it was Cape Cod." The Dutch notwithstanding afterwards distinguished it as Staaten Hoeck, State's Point; and also by its French name, Cape Blanc, translated Witte Hoeck, White Point.                    ,
The Dutch name for our city was Nieuwe Amsterdam; to the tract, the plantations on the North rivef for about four miles, they gave the name of Bloemen'd Dal, syllable for syllable, Blooming Dale. There were two other seats on the island, probably not far distant from the town, and distinguished as Dats Dales—Vreden-dal, Peace-dale, the property of. Dr. De La Montagne, and Zegen-dal, Blessing-dale, the proprietor not mentioned; hence the conjecture not remote, that Bloemen'd Dal, however at first the name of an individual seat, soon served to denote the whole neighborhood of farms there, collectively.
The creek, the water between the north end of the island and the West-Chester shore, they called Spyt den Duyvel Kill, literally, in spite of the Devil Creek} a ford there before Kingsbridge built, and the spot distinguished as the Fonteyn, the Springs.
The northern chop of the entrance, from the Bay into the Kills, retains its Dutch name Konstabel's Hoeck, Con-stable's Hook; its Indian, Nipnichsen. Communipa, is InT dian; Paulus Hoeck, a person by the name of Paulus Schrick, and of note in the colony, described in a very early grant for lands in this city, as of the " Town of Bergen, in New Jersey;" Pavonia, a name given by the Dutch to the ground, the front or shore of it on the river still passing