Complex sentence: The economic situation of the colony of New Netherland could be considered a fairly good showing for a colony only newly started in a wilderness, but it was hardly sufficient to create much excitement amongst the directors of the West India Company.
Split into simpler sentences: The economic situation of the colony of New Netherland could be considered a fairly good showing for a colony only newly started in a wilderness. But it was hardly sufficient to create much excitement amongst the directors of the West India Company.