Knickerbocker's History of New York

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Book by Washington Irving; American Book Exchange, 1881. 254 pgs.

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Contents

Account of the Author.

Book I.: Containing Divers Ingenious Theories and Philosophic Spec Ulations, Concerning the Creation and Population of the World, as Connected with the History of New York.

Chapter II: Cosmogony, Or Creati0n of the World; with A Multitude of Excellent Theories, by Which the Creation of A World Is Shown to Be No Such Difficult Matter as Common Folk Would Imagine.

Chapter IV: Showing the Great Difficulty Philosophers Have Had in Peopling America--And How the Aborigines Came to Be Begotten by Accident--To the Great Relief and Satisfac Tion of the Author.

Chapter V: In Which the Author Puts A Mighty Question to the Rout by the Assistance of the Man in the Moon--Which Not Only Delivers Thousands of People from Great Embarrassment, but LIkewise Concludes This Introductory Book.

Book II.: Treating of the First Settlement of the Province of Nieuw Nederlandts.

Chapter III: In Which Is Set Forth the True Art of Making A Bargain-- Together with the Miraculous Escape of A Great Metrop Olis in A Fog--And the Biography of Certain Heroes of Communipaw

Chapter IV: How the Heroes of Communipaw Voyaged to Hell-Gate, and How They Were Received There

Chapter V: How the Heroes of Communipaw Returned Somewhat Wiser Than They Went--And How the Sage Oloffe Dreamed A Dream--And the Dream That He Dreamed

Chapter VI: Containing An Attempt at Etymology--And of the Founding of the Great City of New Amsterdam

Chapter VII: How the City of New Amsterdam Waxed Great, Under the Protection of Oloffe the Dreamer.

Book III.: In Which Is Recorded the Golden Reign of Wouter Van Twiller.

Chapter III: How the Town 0f New Amsterdam Arose Out 0f Mud, and Came to Be Marvelously Polished and Polite--Together with A Picture of the Manners of Our Great-Great- Grandfathers.

Chapter IV: Containing Further Particulars of the Golden Age, and What Constituted A Fine Lady and Gentleman in the Days of Walter the Doubter.

Chapter V: In Which the Reader Is Beguiled into A Delectable Walk Which Ends Very Differently from What It Commenced.

Chapter VI: Faithfully Describing the Ingenious People of Connecticut and Thereabouts--Showing, Moreover, the True Meaning of LIberty of Conscience and A Curious Device Among These Sturdy Barbarians, to Keep Up A Harmony of Intercourse, and Promote Population.

Book IV.: Containing the Chronicles of the Reign of William the Testy

Chapter II: In Which Are Recorded the Sage Projects of A Ruler of Uni Versal Genius--The Art of Fighting by Poclamation-- and How That the Valiant Jacobus Van Curlet Came to Be F0ully Dishonored at Fort Goed Hoop.

Chapter IV: Philosophical Reflections on the Folly of Being Happy in Times of Prosperity--Sundry Troubles on the Southern Frontiers--How William the Testy Had Well-Nigh Ruined the Province Through A Cabalistic Word--As Also the Secret Expedition of Jan Jansen Alpendam, and His Aston Ishing Reward

Chapter V: How William the Testy Enriched the Province by A Multitude of Laws, and Came to Be the Patron of Lawyers and Bum Bailiffs--And How the People Became Exceedingly En LIghtened and Unhappy Under His Instructions

Chapter VII: Containing Divers Fearful Accounts of Border Wars, and the Flagrant Outrages of the Mosstroopers of Connecticut-- with the Rise of the Great Amphyctionic Council of the East, and the Decline of William the Testy

Book V.: Containing the First Part of the Reign of Peter Stuyvesant, and His Troubles with the Amphyctionic Council.

Chapter III: Containing Divers Speculations on War and Negotiations-- Showing That A Treaty of Peace Is A Great National Evil.

Chapter IV: How Peter Stuyvesant Was Greatly Belied by His Asversa Ries, the Mosstroopers--And His Conduct Thereupon.

Chapter VI: How the People of the East Country Were Suddenly Afflicted with A Diabolical Evil--And Their Judicious Measures for the Extirpation Thereof.

Book VI.: Containing the Second Part of the Reign of Peter the Head- Strong, and His Gallant Achievements on the Delaware.

Chapter III: Containing Peter Stuyvesant's Voyage Up the Huds0n, and the Wonders and Delights of That Renowned River.

Chapter V: In Which the Author Discourses Very Ingenuously of Him Self--After Which Is to Be Found Much Interesting History About Peter the Headstrong and His Followers.

Chapter VI: Showing the Great Advantage That the Author Has Over His Reader in Time of Battle--Together with Divers Porten Tous Movements, Which Betoken That Something Terrible Is About to Happen.

Chapter VII: Containing the Most Horrible Battle Ever Recorded in Poetry Or Prose--With the Admirable Exploits of Peter the Head- Strong.

Chapter VIII: In Which the Author and the Reader, While Reposing After the Battle, Fall into A Very Grave Discourse--After Which Is Recorded the Conduct of Peter Stuyvesant After His VIctory.

Book VII.: Containing the Third Part of the Reign of Peter the Head- Strong--His Troubles with the British Nation, and the Decline and Fall of the Dutch Dynasty

Chapter II: How Peter Stuyvesant Was Much Molested by the Mosstroop Ers of the East and the Giants of Maryland--And How A Dark and Horrid Conspiracy Was Carried on in the British Cabinet Against the Prosperity of the Man Hattoes

Chapter III: Of Peter Stuyvesant's Expedition into the East Country, Showing That Though An Old Bird, He Did Not Under Stand Trap

Chapter IV: How the People of New Amsterdam Were Thrown into A Great Panic, by the News of A Threatened Invasion, and the Manner in Which They Fortified Themselves.

Chapter V: Showing How the Grand Council of the New Netherlands Came to Be Miraculously Gifted with Long Tongues--To Gether with A Great Triumph of Economy

Chapter VI: In Which the Troubles of New Amsterdam Appear to Thicken --Showing the Bravery, in Time of Peril, of A People Who Defend Themeselves by Resolutions.

Chapter VII: Containing A Doleful Disaster of Antony the Trumpeter--And How Peter Stuyvesant, LIke A Second Cromwell, Suddenly Dissolved A Rump Parliament.

Chapter VIII: How Peter Stuyvesant Defended the City of New Amster Dam, for Several Days, by of the Strength of His Head.

Chapter IX: Containing the Dignified Retirement and Mortal Surrender of Peter the Headstrong.

Chapter X: The Author's Reflectioins Upon What Has Been Said.

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