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Excerpt from New Amsterdam and Its People: Studies, Social and Topographical, of the Town Under Dutch and Early English Rule
Since, then, Washington Irving has described New Amster dam, not as it was; and since Mr. Valentine has described it, in many respects as it was not, there seemed to be some room for an attempt to extract from the original records something which should more closely represent the actual conditions existing in the Dutch town, whence the present essay.
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