144 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

about one hundred and forty miles inland from the Bay
grows pretty mountainous, the whole Country is well wa-
tered, and abounds with fine navigable Rivers, the soil varies
as it does in England, in general is fertile, and produces
every kind of Grain as well as Hemp flax, and Tobacco. The
Summers here are sometimes very warm, the Winters short,
but often very cold, the longest Day in this Climate is about
fourteen Hours fifty Minutes, the shortest about nine Hours
and nine Minutes. Annapolis the Metropolis of this province
by the best Observation yet taken has been found to lie in the
thirty eight Degrees forty eight Minutes North Latitude and
by Computation is about seventy six Degrees, thirty Minutes
West longitude from London. The Spaniards have no Set-
tlements near the Borders of Maryland, the ffrench ffort du
Quesne on the Ohio is supposed to be 70 Miles from its North
West Extremity. By the Charter granted to Cecilius Lord
Baltimore by King Charles the first the 20^th of June in the
8^th year of his Reign Maryland is thus described " All that;
part of a peninsula between the Ocean on the East and the
Bay of Chesopeak on the West, and divided from the other
part thereof by a right Line, drawn from the promontory or
Cape of Land called Watkins' point (situate in the aforesaid
Bay near the River Wighco) on the West, unto the main
Ocean on the East, & between that Bound on the South, unto
that part of Delaware Bay or River on the North which
lieth under the fortieth Degree of Northerly Latitude from
the Equinoctial where new England ends, and all that Tract
of Land between the Bounds aforesaid, that is to say passing
from the aforesaid Bay or River called Delaware in a right
Line by the degree aforesaid unto the true Meridian of the
first fountain of the River Powtowmack, and from thence
tending towards the South unto the further Bank of the

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aforesaid River and following the West and South Side
thereof unto a certain place called Cinquack situate near the
mouth of the said River where it falls into the Bay of
Chesapeak, and from thence by a straight Line unto the
aforesaid promontory or place called Watkins' point.
Concerning that part of the peninsula which lies to the
Eastward, a Dispute is now depending between the Lord
Baltimore, and Messieurs penns proprietaries of pensilvania
nor are the Boundaries on the northward as yet fixed be-
tween Maryland and pensilvania but a temporary Line for
the present quieting the Disturbances on the Borders of each
province hath been run by Order of his Majesty from the
East Side of the River Susquehanna Eastward, and from
the West Side of Susquehanna Westward, in such a manner
as that the Line ran Eastward from Susquehanna is fifteen