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Excerpt from Year Book of the Holland Society of New York: The Story of New Amsterdam, 1917
While it is true that the Dutch East India Company, interested only in Asiatic commerce, saw fit to ignore Hudson''s report on the possibilities of the fur trade in the region that he had visited, certain shrewd merchants of Amsterdam dispatched a number of small ships to traffic with the Indians on Manhattan. By 1613 it appears that their agents had built three or four rude cabins in the neighborhood, perhaps, of 39 Broadway. Another vessel, the Tiger, commanded by Captain Adrian Block, happened to burn up, but the loss was quickly repaired. The oaks that sheltered bears on the slopes of Wall Street, where today bulls as well as bears are found, were fashioned into a trim sloop of sixteen tons and christened the ''onrust'' or ''restless,'' a name prophetic of that restless or unresting commerce of which it was the tiny germ. With this product of Manhattan raw material Block sailed into the Sound via the East River, which he called the Hellegat after a branch of the river Scheldt near Hulst in Zealand. Whether the word means clear inlet, or figuratively what its present English spelling and pronunciation might indicate, the name is now applied only to that part of the East River where its waters mingle with those of the Sound.
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While it is true that the Dutch East India Company, interested only in Asiatic commerce, saw fit to ignore Hudson''s report on the possibilities of the fur trade in the region that he had visited, certain shrewd merchants of Amsterdam dispatched a number of small ships to traffic with the Indians on Manhattan. By 1613 it appears that their agents had built three or four rude cabins in the neighborhood, perhaps, of 39 Broadway. Another vessel, the Tiger, commanded by Captain Adrian Block, happened to burn up, but the loss was quickly repaired. The oaks that sheltered bears on the slopes of Wall Street, where today bulls as well as bears are found, were fashioned into a trim sloop of sixteen tons and christened the ''onrust'' or ''restless,'' a name prophetic of that restless or unresting commerce of which it was the tiny germ. With this product of Manhattan raw material Block sailed into the Sound via the East River, which he called the Hellegat after a branch of the river Scheldt near Hulst in Zealand. Whether the word means clear inlet, or figuratively what its present English spelling and pronunciation might indicate, the name is now applied only to that part of the East River where its waters mingle with those of the Sound.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Language - English
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Holland Society of New York
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ISBN - 9780266412731
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Page Count - 292
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Holland Society of New York
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ISBN - 9781333566418
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Page Count - 294
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