History and Language
times this street was known as Wilgen-Pooten-Straat (the street planted with willows). The word “bowery” is the Dutch bouwerij, or peasant's dwelling. A far-fetched etymology is the one which would derive bouwerij from bos, and make of the boer a cattle-raiser. The Dutch peasant was styled a boer, or “dweller,” long before a distinction was made between the cattle-raiser and the market-gardener.
Americans have, for centuries past, consumed quantities of waffles (wafelen), crullers (krullen), and cookies (koekjes).
From Hindeloopen does Cape Henlopen in Delaware Bay take its name, while Cape May, off the coast of New Jersey, is the namechild of the first European shipbuilder in America, who explored the southern, as Block did the northern, coast of New Netherland. In 1614 Adrian Block went
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