538 Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 1754-1765.

has been time with me, 'till now No secure Person to Convey
them safe as Now by M^r Kay. The several Letters by you
inclosed and of others are Delivered to the Post, some sent.
M^r Daniel Dulany designs for the Province by this Shipping,
has been at our Several Spaws six months. I have had
little converse with him and when, he always mentions you
with respect and with voi dance about the Province. I think
him far from well in his Health. Inclosed are Diurnal
Papers and Pamphlets &^c. as will make you Stare! the Lib-
erty of the Press. By Last Accounts from Lord Baltimore
he is at Naples, Concludes me with peculiar Esteem,
Your Sincere friend and obliged

Humble Servant
Cecil^g Calvert.

Mar. 5^th Pos^t Inclosed, a Letter of my Delivery of the
Upper House Addresses to the King and Queen on the Birth
of the Prince of Wales, the inclosed London Gazette recites
them delivered.

Since writing this Letter I have seen M^r Thomas Penn
and after discourse with him on the Subject of the Surveyors
going down by the order and Consent of the Commissioners
at the last meeting at New Castle by their order to the
Middle Point and run of the Line up to the Circle round
New Castle; I told him by the minits of the Proceedings of
the Surveyors on Both sides for Run of the Line run up,
there seem'd a great difference by the Surveyors in the meas-
uring the run of that Line, that if any difference as to Loss
on Either side could be proved as to Quantum of Land by the
unstraitness of that Line already run, the adjustment of such
Loss was better paid by Estimation in Value respectively on
Either side than to be at so very great Expence in the re-
running the said Line already done; his Answer was, the
Line was run, that if any Loss was the Land there was very
Barren, such Loss was not worth Lord Baltimore's Con-
sideration nor his, seem'd satisfied as to the first Run of the
Line; But next morning he came to me and reasumed the
discourse, said M^r Sprig one of our Surveyors had been the
Cause of the Stop in the continuance of reasuming the run
of the said Line from going on, if says he the difference of
Deviation should be more than was then supposed in part of
the Line then reasumed, and the irregularity by unstraitness
Encreases, Then and in that Case it will Cause the Total re-
run of the Line De Novo, and said he hoped no stop will be
put to hinder the proof thereof, for as they were desirous
of Giving No obstruction But where Matter was with real
reason, he hoped from his Lordships side the same; As the