otherwise very agreeable, producing abundant crops of salt
grass and bulrushes.

Here, we are sorry to say, the good old gentleman fell dan-
gerously ill of a fever, occasioned by the neighbouring marshes.
When he found his end approaching, he disposed of his worldly
affairs, leaving the bulk of his fortune to the New York Histo.
rical Society; his Heidelberg Catechism, and Vander Donck's
work to the city library; and his saddle-bags to Mr. Handa-
side. He forgave all his enemies, -- that is to say, all who bore
any enmity towards him; for as to himself, he declared he
died in good-will with all the world. And, after dictating sev-
eral kind messages to his relations at Scaghtikoke, as well as to
certain of our most substantial Dutch citizens, he expired in the
arms of his friend the librarian.

His remains were interred, according to his own request,
in St. Mark's churchyard, close by the bones of his favorite
hero, Peter Stuyvesant: and it is rumoured, that the Histori-
cal Society have it in mind to erect a wooden monument to
his memory in the Bowling-Green.

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