HROUGH the result

some years negotiation a |i
plan for the development of the [fii
trade was finally put into opera-
tion by the Dutch West India
Company, which was formed for
the purpose. One Adrian Block
in 1613 suffered the loss of his
vessel by fire as she was lying off
Manhattan Island loaded with
skins and about to set sail for ||
Holland.

Block and his men were forced,
therefore, to spend the winter on
shore in huts, which they erected
from the timber at hand, sur-
rounding the hamlet bya palisade. |]
He named the settlement New |
Amsterdam, in honor of the first
city of Holland. This is the first

     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   

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