Chapter I: Book I

CONTAINING DIVERS INGENIOUS THEORIES AND PHILOSOPHIC SPECULATIONS,
CONCERNING THE CREATION AND POPULATION OF THE WORLD, AS CONNECTED
WITH THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK.

CHAP. I.—Description of the World 35
CHAP. II.—Cosmogony, or Creation of the World; with a multitude of
excellent theories, by which the creation of a world is shown to
be no such difficult matter as common folk would imagine 46
CHAP. III.—How that famous navigator, Noah, was shamefully
nicknamed; and how he committed an unpardonable oversight in not
having four sons; with the great trouble of philosophers caused
thereby, and the discovery of America 61
CHAP. IV.—Showing the great difficulty philosophers have had in
peopling America; and how the Aborigines came to be begotten by
accident—to the great relief and satisfaction of the Author 72
CHAP. V.—In which the Author puts a mighty question to the rout,
by the assistance of the Man in the Moon—which not only delivers
thousands of people from great embarrassment, but likewise
concludes this introductory book 84