398 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85.

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that I would lett him know where in some neere part of my
Province he might meete me and that with what speed my
affaires would permitt I wrote him word that I would begin my

Voiage up the Bay about the Middle of May which accordingly
I did and being arrived at Saxafras River Wednesday the 23^th
of the said month I dispatcht from thence M^r John Darnall one
of my Chief Secretaries with a letter to M^r Penn signifieing my
Arrival in that part of my Province; and Tuesday following
being the 29^th of the Same month I mett M^r Penn about eight
miles short of new Castle to which place that day I came in
Company with the said Penn. In the evening the same day I
desired to know of M^r Penn what proposall he had to make sig-
nifieing that I was come thither to see what friendly issue might
be putt to the buisnes of our bounds; to which he Answered
that tho he thought his Majesties Letter of the 19^th of August
(82) was not to be insisted on by him as to the two degrees
mentioned therein he conceded there was yet an admeasure-
ment to be insisted on Still That seeming very strange to me
both in regard that M^r Penn had (at a Conference afore) con-
sented to wave that letter as also in regard that it was not agree-
able to my Pattents, he tooke some paines (and not without
heat) to let me understand what he meant by an other ad-
measurement, which he said must Still be insisted on being
thus, that as my Northern bounds was the fortith degree of
Northern Latitude he did not doubt but to have that ascertained
by an admeasurement in this manner that there should be an
observation first taken at Watkins point and. according to the
Latitude that that place by an observation should be found to
lye in that from thence there should be an Admeasurement to
the degree of forty saying that out of every degree he did not
doubt but to gaine six or seaven miles and by that means to
gett water at the head of Chesapeake Bay and that this was
the Mistery which he was plaine to tell the Lord Baltemore and
did assure me that he would procure it from his Maj^tie to
which I answered that if he Could impose his dictates upon the
King and Council it would be in vaine for me to hope
to have Justice don me but I was not (as I told him) of
opinion that he could impose in that kind; and since he
discourst of having an observation taken at Watkins point
(my South Bounds) in order to such an admeasurement as
he had last proposed to himselfe, I did not see any reason
why my North bounds might not also be ascertained by an
observation and then demanded of him how he Resolved to
have the Northern bounds of his Province (being the 43^rd
degree of Northern Latitude) Settled and fixt and answered
me by an observacon to which I again Replyed that he did not
then approve of an admeasurement for his three degrees tho