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it does in England, in general is fertile; the Summers here
from May till the Beginning of September are generally very
hot, so that the Mercury in Farenheits Thermometers will
frequently especially in the Months of July and August, rise
to Ninety two Degrees, during that Season there are frequent
Gusts or Violent Thunder Showers which commonly come
from the North West and cool the Air, from the Middle of
September till the middle of December we have generally fair
moderate weather; between that time and March often severe
Frosts, so as to freeze the largest of our Rivers, but it is very
seldom that such intense Frosts continue more than a fort-
night or three weeks, The longest Day in this Climate is about
fourteen hours and fifty Minutes, the Shortest Nine hours and
nine minutes, There are more than Twenty Rivers in the
Province navigable for large Ships, in most of which Rivers
several vessels are loaded every year but there are not any
Particular Ports or Harbours, nor any considerable Towns or
Places of Trade: Annapolis the Metropolis (which contains
about Two hundred Houses) by the latest Observations Taken
was found to lye in the Latitude of Thirty Eight Degrees forty
Minutes, and by Computation is about Seventy Six Degrees
thirty Minutes West Longitude from London.
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2d In the Charter granted to Cecilius Lord Baltimore by
King Charles the first Maryland is thus described, All that part
of a Peninsula between the Ocean on the East and the Bay
of Chesapeak 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 and between that Bound on the South unto that 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 afore-
said Bay or River called Delaware in a Right Line by the
Degree aforesaid unto the true Meridian of the first Fountain
of the River Potomack and from thence tending towards the
South unto the further Bank of the aforesaid River and
following the West and South side thereof unto a certain
place called Chinquack 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. The Bounds of Pensylvania as
discribed in the Charter granted to William Penn Esquire by
his Majesty King Charles the second in Sixteen hundred
Eighty two being such as interfere with or incroach on Mary-
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