. The city of New York. l Society, 76th to 77thStreets, Central Park West. Disputes between the Dutch and Englishover territorial rights were ceaseless. Itmust be remembered that during the entireperiod of Dutch occupation, the Englishclaimed that they were intruders, and thatall the country between \irginia and Mainebelonged to them by right of Captain JohnSmiths discoveries. The Dutch claimedall the land lying between Cape Cod onthe north, and the Delaware River on thesouth. Curiously enough a strange sur-vival of this period still remains in NewYork—the Hudson River is yet referred toby the
. The city of New York. l Society, 76th to 77thStreets, Central Park West. Disputes between the Dutch and Englishover territorial rights were ceaseless. Itmust be remembered that during the entireperiod of Dutch occupation, the Englishclaimed that they were intruders, and thatall the country between \irginia and Mainebelonged to them by right of Captain JohnSmiths discoveries. The Dutch claimedall the land lying between Cape Cod onthe north, and the Delaware River on thesouth. Curiously enough a strange sur-vival of this period still remains in NewYork—the Hudson River is yet referred toby the people of the city as the NorthRiver, while as a matter of fact it lies direct-ly west, as the Delaware River was referredto as the South^—and this ancient desig-nation is the origin of our present curiouslocalism. What we call the East River isnot a river at all, but an arm of the sea,although it does lie directly east of thecity, and is correctly designated geographi-cally. In 1664 matters between the Dutch and33. tbe English reached a climax, and the Eng-lish seized the city, naming it after theDuke of York, brother to the reigning Eng-lish monarch, King Charles II. The Englishshowed vast wisdom in ruling the new addi-tion to their possessions. With a few ex-ceptions most of the Dutch Burgomasters,schepens and other officials, who under theEnglish rule became the aldermen andsheriffs, were continued in power, and on thewhole, the administration of the Englishwas a decided improvement over the policyof the Dutch West India Company. Theloss of this colony made a final ending ofthe Corporation, which had already lostenormous sums in the enterprise; thence-forth, with the exception of about tenmonths in 1673, New York remained exclu-sively and continuously under the Englishuntil the Revolution. That the Dutch char-acter and Dutch influence has endured and isimportant, is a high tribute to the splendidcharacter of the founders of our city, no lessthan to the general willingn
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