106 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

affords me little time for particulars to you. However as I
am desirous to Acknowledge at all times to you when oppor-
tunity serves, this ownes the rec^t of y^rs of the 29^th of May.
By w^h you inform the " Surveyors on the East shore are again at
a stand, that the Line they have lately run passes distance 150
feet 6 inches westw^d of the Point it ought by calculation to
have run through, so that if continued, this Line wo^d Probably
run farther to the Westw^d of the Extremity of the Radius than
the Line run for a Tangent last summer did to the East of it;
how the Error is to be rejected you cannot tell," seem to be
for submitting consideration thereon to the Superiours here:
'tis indeed vexatious as you observe to see Business go on
after such a manner." In order to help you June the 20^th I
wrote (w^h Let^r for want of conveyance is not gone therefore
this will accompany it) In w^h I informed you, that determina-
tion was had here to send mathematicians with Necessary
Inst^ts to facilitate the Due execution of the Boundary lines &
of w^h resolution I again confirm to you Now: the Geometrical
Survey^rs are arrived in London, the Mess^rs Penns^a & I on his
Lord^ps part, attended with Mathematicians have had meetings,
at w^h times many Questions have been propounded & solved
w^h are deliv^d to the Surveyors with sev^l Mathematical Ins^st
such as a fine Sector & transit Inst^ts &c^a thoroughly inspected
tryed & aproved by real Comiss^rs here, some trivial matters
here further to settle will complete their departure. Tis
Agreed to each Surveyor £1 I^s p^r Diem, & when employed to
fare in comon with others, their passage paid out & on return:
their Names Dixon & Mason, allowed by the best Judges here
as Persons intirely accomplished & of good character, these
Persons of acquired Abilities & sound sense, attended with
real materials requisit & observations & hints proper in Mixt
& practical Mathematicks, as will obviate all Doubts & settle
& Determine all matters with you Gentelⁿ Comissioners on
Both sides so as not to intervest the Articles of Agreem^t bet:
the Proprietors. I wish a right Judgem^t & have been Assid-
uous for happy Issue content & to facilitate all matters for
you Gentelⁿ & all concerned.
In my last, I wrote you of the High Honour his Majestys
Admittance of me of long Conference with him, in w^h you was
of Essential part & of his intire Approbation of you. By Let^r
from his Lord^p dated from Zante Island June the 4^th in the
Levant, he says after a violent storm 48 Hours he was there
safe, from thence I believe his progression is threw the Archi-
pellego Sea to Constantinople: his return I have no thoughts
of till Midsumer next if then? I am so far happy, I wish him
home yet am easy & content as his Affairs provincial are
Guided by y^r Just Rule & Due Administration of Goverm^t