The intention was that this line, twenty miles east of the Hudson, should continue at that distance until it struck the boundary line of Massachusetts ; but being given a " North Northwest " direction, it intersected the Hudson River at West Point, and cut off a large part of New York west of that river. On the 24th of November, 1688, negotiations were again undertaken to fix the boundary line, and articles were concluded between Governor Dougan and Council of New York, and the Governor and delegates of Connecticut, that the line should run as originally intended, twenty miles east of the Hudson River. But upon it becoming evident that such a line would deprive Connecticut of several towns which she had planted, it became necessary to vary the line in parts so that these towns should remain in Connecticut; hence the zig-zag boundary line at the southern end between the two States ; and as an ofiFset for the territory thus given to Connecticut, an ' equivalent tract" was taken from Connecticut at the northern part of the line, and "The Oblong," of 61,440 acres, or a tract of laud two miles in width and fifty in length, was given to New York from Ridgefield to the Massachusetts line.

The boundary thus agreed upon began at the mouth of Byram River at a j^oint thirty miles from New York, and following that stream as far as the head of tide-water, or about a mile and a half from the Sound, to a certain " wading-place," where the common road crossed the stream at a rock known and described as " The Great Stone at the Wading- Place." From that stone the line was to run northwest till itshould reach apoint eight miles from the Sound; thencealine running eastward parallel to the general course of the Sound, and twelve miles in length was fixed upon.