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he thought it Necessary in my Case and yet I said to him that
there was more reason for admeasurement as to his bounds
(there being Severall degrees mentioned in his grant) then in
mine where I had nothing given me by any Number of degrees
but only Watkins point for my south bounds, and the degree
of forty for my north-bounds besides that an admeasurement
in my case might be said not to be rationally practicable as will
easily be made appeare this having been argued with some
Earnestness M^r Penn (at last told me that if I would hearken
to accept of a proposal which he had to make me he did not
doubt but all matters could Soone receive a friendly issue I
told him I was desirous of nothing more, then that our differ-
ences might be amicably Ended betwixt us; He then proposed
this that if I would lett him have Susquehanna River for an
Inlett and Land Enough on Each Side the said River Sufficient
of his Occasions and that I would let him know certainly under
my hand what price or value I would Sett upon the same he
would then willingly joine with me to bring an observation to
find the degree of forty Northerly Latitude and with such
instruments as we had then propper for that purpose, to this I
answered that I wondered should I be willing to dispose of that
w^ch he desired how he would expect I was able to give him any
thing certaine under my hand afore I knew Certainly how far
North up Susquehanno River the fortieth degree Northern
Lattitude (my North bounds) could reach He then desired to
know what Latitude Cap^t James Conaway and some other per-
sons found Palmers Island which is in Susquehanno River to
lye in by an observation I had caused to be taken the 28^th of
february last For his Satisfaction therein I product to him the
observation under their hands and the same read to him by
which he saw that the said Island was 16 miles to the South-
ward of the degree forty and then he told me that by that
observation he thought New Castle was about twelve miles
from the said Degree and then proposes to me that if I would
give him from Under my hand what he must give for as many
miles as I should runn up the said River saying if tenn miles
how much should I demand for tenn miles and if sixteen miles
how much for 16 miles and that after I had given him this
Certaine under my hand he would then be willing to go with
me to the heads of the Rivers and joine with me in the taking
observacons as I had all along insisted on; Adding that we
should take but a few persons with us and not have the Noise
and trouble of any troopes of horse; As this proposall was
New and a very Strange way of proceeding as I thought I
desired some time to consider of what he had offered but I
found he was not willing to give me any longer time then the
next day being the 30^th of May so that I tooke that little time

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