110 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

ascertain by Astronomical Observations the Point from which
the Northern Boundary or due East & West Line is to be run
we shall when we meet to consider that part of the Business
endeavour to act agreeable to his Advice & Opinion: in the
mean time I am to inform you that as the Pennsylvania
Comm^rs when we met at Newcastle the 15^th of last month
insisted on our setting the Surveyors to Work again in order
to describe a Tangent we agreed that they should be ordered
to proceed in the manner directed by the inclosed Instruction.
When the Surveyors have executed such our Orders we are
you will observe to represent to our Constituents what has
been done by us in pursuance of their Commissions & after
what manner it has been done so that His Ldp & the Proprie-
tors of Pennsylv^a may if they think fit in order to avoid farther
Expence settle the matter some how or other between them-
selves & not permit us to be for ever attempting to run a
Mathematically true Tangent which perhaps can hardly be
described upon Paper. I hope however that since the Sur-
veyors must now finish the Business they are upon you will
not come to any Conclusion with the Mess^rs Penns with regard
to the Establishment of any Boundary in the stead of a true
Tangent untill you shall receive from me a Copy of the Sur-
veyors Minutes which perhaps may not reach you till late in
the Winter. The Pennsylvania Gentⁿ having made a Point
of our Attending them again this Fall we have agreed to meet
the 20^th of Oct^r at a Place on Sassafrass River called George
Town notwithstanding I expect it will be very inconvenient
for us to do so as our Assembly is to meet here the Beginning
of that Month which is the only time they could conveniently
meet to do Business by reason that the Provincial Court will
sit the three last weeks of next Month & in November the
Lawyers would be obliged to attend their Business in the
several County Courts. As it will for this reason be impos-
sible for our Commissioners to go to Phila^a in Oct^r & the
Penns^a Gentlemen seem to insist that the next Thing to be
done is the ascertaining a Point fifteen Miles due south from
Philadelphia I imagine nothing more will be done with regard
to the Dividing Lines this year besides what the Surveyors
are now upon, & before we can proceed in the Spring it is to
be hoped that His Lordship & the Proprietors of Pennsyl-
vania will send a Person or two from England to go on with
the Work & prevent the exorbitant Expence & Disagreement
which the frequent Meetings of the Commissioners seems
likely to create. In Consequence of His Lordship's pleasure
signified to me I have advised old M^r Key of his being
appointed a Member of the Council & shall when he comes
hither next month to the Provincial Court introduce him to