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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 43
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shore, to find or mark out the course of the Tangent line at
the periphry of the Circle ; by visible certain mensurations,
whereby the Sheriffs, Farmers & Tenants will know in which
Province every tract of Land is to Maryland or Pensilvania.
His Lordship not being on the spot he cannot properly direct,
therefore, to avoid absurdity by error of reasoning on objects
his mind wanting the Concomitance of conception to define by
Evidence of truth from beginning or principle of sense, as the
truth of Terms whereof it consisteth, which are always concep-
tion of the mind, thereon, his beleif of you from experience of
your Fidelity, he has no doubt or cause to conceive than that
you joyntly with his Comissioners will direct & Act for him as
to fixed points to be placed in the foregoing mensuration, &
that you & they will render the execution at a moderate
expence consisting with Evidence of truth relating, this is his
trust of you & them, & he directs me you joyntly have his
consent to Act for him therein ; and in the same manner the
best fitting from paralell of Latitude as can be in the due exe-
cution of the North boundary line, And further of this Line,
with regard to its extent West, Your desire to know in the
run of it, Whether to the first springhead? which his Lordship
regards issuing from the Alagany Mountains. Be please to
observe the enclosed Map of theNorthern Neck of Virginia, situ-
ated betwixt the Rivers Patowmack & Rappahanock, accord-
ing to a late Survey in 1737 Charted by Willm Mayo, which I
apprehend is from the productions of Survey of the Virginia
Comissioners appointed by the Crown, by Order of the King
and Council to discover & describe the due course of Patow-
mack River from its Springhead & flow into Chesapeak Bay,
please to observe, from the Springhead west laying in the
Alagany Mountains, issuing with great Water flow North &
by South, is the same water (non obstante a kick up spring)
flowing with Potowmack Waters at Town Creek Shawno
Indian Fields, Twenty Shilling Creek set down in the Map,
these Waters to Indian fields are named Cohongorooto River,
described from its head to the mouth of Shenandoe's, Thus by
absurdity, false pretence & by name they lay a Trap to purloin
much Territory from Maryland, as will be visibly included on
the Run of the East & West line parallel of Latitude to be the
North Boundary Line ending West & Altitude according to
a Line down to the Springhead of Potowmack River in the
Alagany Mountains, observe, opposite to Indian Fields on the
furthermost Bank of Potowmack the Virginia side, Wappa-
comma River or South Branch flowing into Potowmack (South
Branch seems to be wrote however) good intelligence informs,
from the great Breadth of that Rivers flow into Potowmack,
that that Branch is Patowmack, whose extent from its Spring-
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