. Retrographs: comprising a history of New York city prior to the revolution; biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Nathan Hale; sketches of John André and Beverly Robinson; schemes of Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold ... Embodying more than a hundred letters and signatures of famous persons, many of which have not previously been published: including a fac-simile of an original official map of the city of New York, made in 1728, representing all the streets, blocks, wards, keys and docks then existing. so inextricably associated or identified with the remem-brances and observan
. Retrographs: comprising a history of New York city prior to the revolution; biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Nathan Hale; sketches of John André and Beverly Robinson; schemes of Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold ... Embodying more than a hundred letters and signatures of famous persons, many of which have not previously been published: including a fac-simile of an original official map of the city of New York, made in 1728, representing all the streets, blocks, wards, keys and docks then existing. so inextricably associated or identified with the remem-brances and observances of two of the most momentous events of ourreligious history; and that we continue to confound with the preceptsof the new dispensation of Truth, Peace and Good Will, the errors andhobgoblins of witchcraft, frivolity and superstition—-which absurditieswe impress, as verities, upon credulous infancy and childhood, A little girl whose mother had revealed to her, at the age of sixyears, the fact that Santa Glaus was a myth or deception, exclaimedin surprise : What, then, am I to believe? Is the story of the Christ,which you told me at the same time, and which I have believed allthese years, a myth and a deception also ? Thus do we honor the customs of our ancestors. So, doubtless, weshall continue to perpetuate them, and perhaps originate other devices,as aimless and irrational, as unjustifiable, and reprehensible as any ofwhich human infirmity, at any previous period, seems to have beencapable or HENRY HUDSON. CONTRACT OF THE Directors of the East India Company of the Chamber of Amsterdam WITH Henry Hudson —1609. ~=r*- On this eighth of January, in the year of our Lord one thousandsix hundred and nine, the Directors of the East India Company of theChamber of Amsterdam of the ten years reckoning, of the one part,and Mr. Henry Hudson, Englishman, assisted by Jocodus Hondius, ofthe other part, have agreed in manner following, to wit: That the saidDirectors shall,
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